We received confirmation of rumors at my company that they are pushing for a mandatory 50% RTO on a week. This came after weeks of the company publishing news,

We received confirmation of rumors at my company that they are pushing for a mandatory 50% RTO on a week. This came after weeks of the company publishing news, asking for feedback, about our current hybrid working scheme, where most people replied they only go to the office to socialize and it's not a bad thing. Then they posted an announcement that they would try to encourage people to socialize more often at the office. The first problem? Our office barely has enough space to fit 50% of our workforce (about 2000 employees). And then now I'm being forced to return to the office. I spoke to some colleagues that we've seen how this was received in big-tech companies. Meta, Google, all lost key figures that decided to quit after RTO was forced on them. The same will happen with my company, very important seniors will leave and now we'll be on a tech debt and forced to find a replacement for those key figures. Now, this decision wouldn't affect me either way because I go to the office every day. But I go to the office because I like it, because it's a fun environment, I like sitting next to my teammates and other colleagues, talking, going out together for lunch, socializing. The moment I am forced to come to the office to meet some stupid metric and help higher management avoid taxes and get a big paycheck which won't even be shared with the other employees (like me), I will stop going to the office. Because it won't be fun anymore. And that's where I ask, is higher management even fulfilling the stupid metric they are forcing on their employees? As the article said, it's about choice. It doesn't mean employers can force a RTO only because their employees are happy with the hybrid work scheme and turn out to go to the office 5 days a week. They are happy about having a choice.