Last year marked a major shift in return-to-office mandates. For the first time since the pandemic, more than half of Fortune 100 companies moved from hybrid setups to fully in-office policies. But Mark Dixon, CEO and founder of International Workplace Group (IWG), has a message for JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, Amazon’s Andy Jassy, and any CEO demanding a return to the office: You’re not serious about AI.
From his vantage point, running the world’s largest flexible office provider—with more than 8 million users across 122 countries and 85% of the Fortune 500 among its customers—Dixon believes that bosses clinging to rigid, five-day mandates are defaulting to a “factory-style approach.”
