The RTO Battle: Companies Will Fire Non-Compliers and Remote Workers Are Willing to Quit

By Maria Kingston.
Updated Oct 25, 2022

SEATTLE (PRWEB) October 25, 2022 - Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, recently released its findings from a survey of 1,000 U.S.-based businesses and remote workers. In order to find out how business owners are responding to worker resistance to return to office (RTO), and how workers are responding to RTO pressure, survey respondents were asked about their future plans for remote work.

Of the respondents identifying as business owners, 68% said that they plan to increase the number of days and/or employees required to be in person within the next six months. Thirty-four percent of this group said they will require around one-quarter of their employees to work at least partially in person, 34% will require about half their workforce, 24% will require three-quarters of their workforce, and 7% will require all employees to come in at least some of the time. When businesses were asked how likely they would be to fire employees who are unwilling to return to work in person, 44% said somewhat likely while 46% said very likely.

However, the majority of employees would prefer to work in person just 3 days/week or less. Just one-quarter (26%) of workers say they would be willing to work fully in person if required by their employer, while 6% say they would never be willing to work in person even if required. Additionally, thirty-two percent say they are somewhat likely to quit if their employer requires them to work more days in person than they are willing to, while 21% say they would be very likely to quit. In fact, 7% even said that a 25% raise would not be enough to entice them back to working in person.

The good news for workers is that the vast majority of companies are somewhat (52%) or very (40%) open to negotiating with employees who dont want to work in person. Additionally, businesses demonstrated a willingness to provide the incentives that employees rated as most important to them, including salary increases.

For the full survey results, please visit Digital.com at: https://digital.com/rto-battle/

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