Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds
In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.
This is exactly what everyone thought it was: A stealth layoff to get the most costly employees to bail without having to fire them/give them severance.
Now they can be replaced with cheap H-1B workers, especially when the DOJ changes that rule to make it so that companies no longer have to prove they cannot find a US worker for the same job before they hire a foreign H-1B worker.
This was all to cut costs and fuck over the most senior (read: costly) workers.
Fuck all that institutional knowledge, I guess.
Except that those costly employees will get a pay raise and easily find new remote work, so they're not really victims here
pretty much yeah
Well no shit; if you were able to get a top-tier talent predicated on "we'll let you work from home", then yank the rug out from under them, of course they're going to ditch you at the first opportunity. I would too!
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful tech companies — Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent, according to a case study published last week by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan.
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