RTO Ki-ls Companies by Forcing Talent Out

https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/kevin-oleary-loves-why-his-companies-will-never-force-a-return-to-the-office/91291726

Kevin O’Leary — a real investor with actual companies laid out why forcing people into offices is a losing strategy:
“If you’re trying to say to people, ‘Oh, you got to work in an office,’ you’ll just get the bottom quartile of people who have no choice.”

He points out that in his portfolio of 50 companies, 40% of employees stayed remote after the pandemic and that’s true across the economy.

That’s pure talent economics. If you force everyone back full time, you literally shrink the talent pool to people who can’t choose otherwise. Meanwhile the companies embracing flexibility get the best performers and stay competitive.

This is about facts not feelings. It’s about results, real hiring markets, and the fact that companies that mandate RTO are choosing the bottom quartile instead of competing for top talent. Investors and workers alike see through it.

#Competitive #Flexibility #RTO #RemoteWork #Talent

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@a7

It's hard to keep up with your entitlements.

So, do you want warm milk and cookies before... or after naptime?

I don't want to interrupt your delicate sensibilities. So, if there's a network outage, to whom should we refer the issue?

Because I know just fathoming the idea of RTO is too much for your generous mind to handle. Showing up to work like a real adult...?

No way! I'M BUSY WORKING. Watching bluey!

What are you really doing at home? Tennis? Golf? Costco?

@a3 imagine thinking you need to RTO to “actually work” in 2026. This is the new age, boomer. Try to keep up.

Holy cow! 3 posts in a row all from the same person trying to paint a false narrative. Debunked and disregarded, this guys restarted. I hope you get the help you need.

RTO has really put a damper on my productivity.

With WFH, I was actually able to focus for once. I was getting SO MUCH done. I was running errands. I was spending time with the neighbors wife. And I really started perfecting my golf game at the country club.

Now, with RTO, I barely have time for anything other than work.

YAWN

See you on the commute

RTO and actually work.

“If you’re trying to say to people, ‘Oh, you got to work in an office,’ you’ll just get the bottom quartile of people who have no choice,” O’Leary said in a recent interview on Kevin O’Leary TV. “I don’t want those people. I want my competitors to hire those people.”

This is exactly why we lag behind Verizon and T Mobile in every metric. Because it’s not an industry standard it’s the loser standard

Unfortunately everyone has known this for a long time and only the diaper-wearing dinosaurs/C-suite are unaware and/or unwilling to acknowledge this.

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