More workers say they'll quit instead of going back to the office full time

In brief: As companies aggressively force staff back into the office full-time, more employees are refusing to comply with the demands. A recent study has found that fewer than half of UK workers would agree to a full-time return-to-office (RTO) mandate, with women and parents the most likely to refuse. The report comes from researchers at King's College London (KCL) and King's Business School. They analyzed over a million data points from the UK government's Labour Force Survey (LFS) and 50,000 responses from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA) UK. The biggest takeaway is the "growing worker resistance to rigid office mandates." Just 42% of workers would agree to return to the office full-time, down from 54% in 2022 – it seems the longer people work from home, the less willing they are to give it up. Between the start of 2022 and late 2024, the number of people who said they would look for a new job rather than go back to the office full time jumped from 40% to ... Read full article.