Why rush to find the return-to-office approach that works best for your company? You’re not Cinderella racing to get home by midnight before your office turns into a pumpkin. It takes time to flesh out a RTO strategy.

It may seem like RTO is the way to go, with large employers including Zoom, Meta, and Amazon all recently calling workers back to the office. As of June, 59% of full-time US employees were fully onsite, while 29% were hybrid and 12% were fully remote, according to data from WFH Research.

But HR leaders need to figure out the best plan for their employees. Otherwise, they risk being among the 80% of executives who regret their RTO strategies.

Let your employees lead. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to the future of work, said Lívia de Bastos Martini, chief people officer at Gympass. Whether hybrid, remote, or fully in-person, she said companies should pay less attention to what competitors are doing and more attention to what their employees need.

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