Deep Dive Podcast: Why are companies mandating five days back to office?

With flexibility, we even open up the fields for people with disabilities and a unique, non-traditional workforce- people who you work from home, but not necessarily appear in the normal hours.

Steven Chia, number:
I’m also assuming that a larger, younger people, many of whom graduated during COVID, may have had a harder time working in the office five days a year. For the older people, you were used to it, that’s what you used to accomplish. So coming back is n’t that big a deal?

Karen Teo, state director, Quess Singapore:
I always believe that people do n’t just leave an organisation because of ( the ) RTO ( policy ). There are other factors, like the director. You’ve heard of this saying, correctly? ” I do n’t leave the company, I leave the boss”.

But if there’s really some camaraderie within the company, the cooperation, social interaction with the people, that makes it harder for them to keep.

During COVID, when I hired people, there’s no link between them and my crew members. So ( work and relationships ) become transactional. That kind of relation between them is not truly mine. &nbsp,