Return to Office (RTO)

A policy requiring employees who had been working remotely to come back to a physical office, fully or partly.

Return to Office (RTO) refers to mandates that bring remote employees back on-site for some or all of the week. RTO announcements are a common reason people start looking for a new, genuinely remote role.

If staying remote matters to you, prioritise remote-first employers, whose entire model makes an RTO reversal far less likely than at an office-centric company.