01/23/2025

Employees Will Return to Offices for Higher Pay

RTO mandates are negatively impacting many companies

As some CEOs continue to push for return-to-office (RTO) mandates, are pay bumps the key to enticing employees back to an in-person workplace?

ZipRecruiter data from 2024 showed U.S. workers who traded fully remote for fully in-office setups through 2023 received a 29.2 percent pay bump — nearly double that of those moving the other way.

Additionally, Robert Half’s 2025 Salary Guide revealed that for jobs that can be done remotely, 66 percent of managers are willing to increase starting salaries for new hires to work in the office; of those, 59 percent are offering workers up to 20 percent more pay to come in four to five days a week.

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