I don’t think it is. It’s because the higher up people a) are 100% dedicated to Microsoft, b) spend all their time in meetings, and c) can afford to live close to the office.
They can’t imagine - or don’t care - that many employees aren’t Microsoft zombies, don’t do work that really benefits from being in an office, and have horrible commutes.
That’s why you frequently see these instructions from the top which then get ignored at the bottom of the chain, until they start doing ID checks (or time cards?) to force it.
It wouldn’t make sense as a layoff technique because they’ll lose their best employees. Also they do plenty of layoffs without RTO.
I don’t think it is. It’s because the higher up people a) are 100% dedicated to Microsoft, b) spend all their time in meetings, and c) can afford to live close to the office.
They can’t imagine - or don’t care - that many employees aren’t Microsoft zombies, don’t do work that really benefits from being in an office, and have horrible commutes.
That’s why you frequently see these instructions from the top which then get ignored at the bottom of the chain, until they start doing ID checks (or time cards?) to force it.
It wouldn’t make sense as a layoff technique because they’ll lose their best employees. Also they do plenty of layoffs without RTO.