“When you give employees optionality to opt into something, it drives greater engagement and buy in. When you force people to do something, it actually creates more discontent,” MongoDB’s chief people officer Harsha Jalihal tells HR Brew.
Prudential’s VP of culture and inclusion, Nya Patel tells HR Brew that the company’s Work from Anywhere program gives employees more flexibility.
“Transparent conversation [and] communication needs to be at the forefront of everything that you do.”
Despite “chatter” around RTOs, the average amount of time employees spend working from home hasn’t dramatically declined.
Plus, how to prevent your workforce from doing it.
“We can’t just bring people back to the office, and changing nothing else, assume that all of a sudden we get collaboration, or all of a sudden we get connectivity,” a McKinsey partner tells HR Brew.
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