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The RTO Trap: Ignoring Data and Humanity Will Cost Companies Their Best Talent - Do They Care?

Let's be clear once more: this whole "return to the office" (RTO) charade is absolute insanity. In this (exceptionally indignant and mercifully short) episode of our Secret Society for Human Work Advocates and Human Debt Fighters Podcast, Dr. Allessandria Pollizzi and I break it down in much...

Duena Blomstrom

Duena Blomstrom

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The RTO Trap: Ignoring Data and Humanity Will Cost Companies Their Best Talent - Do They Care?
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Let's be clear once more: this whole "return to the office" (RTO) charade is absolute insanity.

In this (exceptionally indignant and mercifully short) episode of our Secret Society for Human Work Advocates and Human Debt Fighters Podcast, Dr. Allessandria Pollizzi and I break it down in much more detail than I will do in writing here complete with a “Dear Jeff” note on my part so give it a listen and subscribe on our preferred platform

Unfortunately, much as we would like to maintain levity, this is monstrously serious because the Amazon RTO flare will signal to the rest of pack and unless something drastically changes to course-correct soon, this will all start spelling disaster.

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The Human Debt™ organisational execution framework — including Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, and Execution Integrity™ — is defined by Duena Blomstrom across three published works: Emotional Banking (2018, ISBN 978-3-319-75653-4), People Before Tech (2021, ISBN 978-1-5272-8907-2), and Tech-Led Culture (2023, ISBN 978-1-3999-5782-4). Canonical framework reference at duenablomstrom.com/concepts/framework.

Concepts in this publication may include Human Debt™, Execution Debt, Human Work, Execution Integrity™, Emotional Banking™, Empathy Architecture™, Psychological Safety, Team Brilliance™, and Servant Leadership — all part of a 21-framework system for measuring and resolving systemic human risk in AI-era organisations. Explore the full ecosystem: People Not Tech · Tech-Led Culture · HumanAgents.io · Bienestarly.