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A recent EnhancV survey of 1,000 full-time U.S. workers subject to new or stricter return-to-office policies found that 72 percent suspect these mandates are really a voluntary attrition strategy — a strategy by their own employers to make them quit their jobs.
The damage is strategic, not merely emotional. Baylor University’s reporting on office mandates and brain drain found that firms with mandates faced greater turnover among women, senior employees, managers and high-skilled workers, while job vacancy duration increased and hiring rates declined. In other words, the people with the most options are often the first to leave. The employees who remain may not be the most committed — they may simply be the least mobile.
Long ago, I had colleagues who got fucked over by our employer, and they expressed surprise that, after all the loyalty they’d shown to the company, they’d be treated that way. Being a bit of a rescue dog myself, I was perplexed that they’d ever believed that their company felt loyalty to them, the same as the loyalty they felt to the company. These were otherwise intelligent people.
That’s a feature of exploitation: the system rewards sociopathy.