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The latest on, if I can't work from home, I quit.

I'm David Brancaccio in New York.

Orders for employees to return to in-person work is costing companies some top talent.

That's the key finding from a new study out of the Universities of Michigan and Chicago.

Marketplace's Henry Epp joins us now.

The study focused on three top tech firms, Microsoft, Apple, and SpaceX,

all of which started requiring employees to come back to work in person at least part time in 2022

and it found that when those mandates came down senior level employees left at higher rates.

The study found a decline of about five percentage points in the share of senior workers at both Apple and Microsoft about 15% at SpaceX

And those employees who have lots of experience in institutional knowledge can be harder to replace and the study found they often went to work

for competitors. So while a lot of return to work mandates have been based on this

idea that they'll improve a company's productivity and innovation, this study

challenges that and shows at least one way they can hurt. and how many office workers are going back to working in person?

Yeah, so one measure of this comes from a company called Castle, which operates security

systems for office buildings, and they found that about 50% of workers are coming into the office

on average. The number varies by

city and by the day of the week, but it's hovered around 50% for about a year now and

that means lots of people are still working from home at least a few days a week.

And we should of course keep in mind that plenty of workers in this economy

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