Return-to-Office Mandates are Triggering a New Era of Workplace Sabotage
“The corporate world is currently locked in a high-stakes psychological standoff. While CEOs champion the office as a hub for “serendipitous innovation” and “culture-building,” the view from the cubicle looks radically different. New data suggests that the push to bring employees back to the desk has triggered a profound breach of the employer-employee social contract.
Rather than fostering collaboration, strict return-to-office (RTO) mandates have given rise to The Great Compliance—a phenomenon where workers show up physically to satisfy badge-trackers while mentally and strategically checking out. From coffee badging to job hunting at the desk, employees are finding ways to weaponize their presence.
To get a clearer picture of this shift, Enhancv surveyed 1,000 full-time workers across the United States who have been subject to new or stricter return-to-office (RTO) policies within the last 12 months. Here’s how they’re responding to the mandatory return…”
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Which changes to the political system do Americans support?
- In a 2023 survey, 87% of Americans favored limiting the number of terms that members of Congress can serve. That included 90% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents and 86% of Democrats and Democratic leaners.
- In the same survey, 79% of Americans favored putting a maximum age limit in place for federal elected officials, while 74% favored the same thing for U.S. Supreme Court justices. Majorities in both partisan coalitions expressed support for these changes.
- 72% of Americans also said that there should be limits on how much money individuals and organizations can spend on political campaigns. Around three-quarters of Democrats (76%) favored this, as did 71% of Republicans.
- In 2024, more than six-in-ten Americans (63%) said that they would prefer to elect the president directly through a nationwide popular vote, rather than through the existing Electoral College. Unlike the issues discussed above, this one had a distinct partisan tilt: 80% of Democrats supported a popular vote system, compared with 46% of Republicans.
Americans also have expressed broad support for other types of constitutional change. For instance, in 2020, when there was a renewed push to ratify the failed Equal Rights Amendment, 78% said they strongly or somewhat favored adding it to the Constitution.
