Is there a Right Decision in the Return to Office Debate?

Is it time to pack up your home office and start commuting again? You might not be ready, but your company’s leadership likely is. According to KPMG’s 2022 CEO Outlook, 65 percent of CEOs at multinational firms saying they want workers back in cubicles 9-to-5 by 2025. As a prime example, this spring, Apple’s Chief Executive Tim Cook told his employees this in a memo, outlining his company’s April 11 hybrid back-to-work plan: “I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to being together again.” Are employees as eager? As we look to life post-pandemic and discussions of returning to the office more permanently than the past two years, Ruder Finn's Kathy Bloomgarden and Mondelez International's Russell Dyer weigh in on the challenges facing leaders in ways that have never been required of them until now.