CEOs are stepping down at record-high rates. According to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc…. “In 2023, 1,914 CEOs left their posts, a 55% increase from the 1,235 CEO changes in 2022. Last year’s total is the highest on record, surpassing the previous record of 1,640 CEO exits in 2019.” In this report, you’ll find every notable CEO stepping down since 2020. We…
At Buildremote, we’ve reported a staggering amount of well-known companies that have implemented some form of permanent remote work. Next, we analyzed in-depth the true plans for the Fortune 100’s return to office. As of October 2024, only 10 of the Fortune 100 had declared a full return to the office for all employees. The others planned to never come back in full, come back…
This post was originally written on January 3, 2022. Every time a notable four-day work week country announcement comes out, we update the post. Most recently, this post was updated on October 5, 2024. Here are all of the countries with four-day weeks in some form. They’ve either 1) implemented a four-day work week law, 2) proposed a new bill, or 3) are trialing it…
During the Industrial Revolution, factory workers logged 80-100 hours per week. But in 1926, Henry Ford popularized the 40-hour work week after he found that working more barely yielded an increase in productivity. It was a breakthrough in how we work. But it was also nearly one hundred years ago. Just like how Henry Ford implemented the five-day work, today’s visionary companies have implemented four-day…
Arguably since the first agricultural revolution 10,000+ years ago, work has been tied to a fixed location. That location-based work – first a farm, then a manufacturing plant, then an office – created opportunity. Opportunity attracted workers (or new citizens). Therefore, we always formed cities, countries, and societies primarily through location-based opportunity. Go where the work is, as they say. For the first time in…
Once the hub for tech companies in the world, San Francisco is now facing a wave of businesses leaving the Bay Area. An astonishing 35% of San Francisco’s workforce works primarily from home, according to a 2021 NBC Bay Area report. That’s the highest among all US cities where data was collected. And with workers staying home or moving out of San Francisco altogether, the…
As of September 16, 2024, Amazon is on its sixth publicly-shared return-to-office (RTO) policy. 2024 Updates September 2024: According to CNBC, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a new memo instructing corporate employees to come into the office five days per week. The new policy will go into full effect on January 2, 2025. June 2024 According to Seattle Times, “After more than a year…
In this database, we keep an updated list of every “return to office” policy for the Fortune 100 (and compile the data at the top). Use the links below to jump to a section that interests you: RTO statistics and takeaways RTO for every Fortune 100 Download the database Definitions Fortune 100s reducing office space 2023 & 2022 final statistics Return To Office Statistics…
In this report, we highlight all of the companies moving to Texas from 2020 onward. This research by Buildremote compiles every public announcement by businesses stating that they’ve changed their headquarters to Texas. This report was published on September 18, 2023. It was updated on October 25, 2023, then on January 8, 2024, then on January 25, 2024, then on May 14, 2024, then on…
RTX (Raytheon) message boards have become popular over the last month about changing return-to-office plans. Based on the discussions, Raytheon management likely sent out a memo to most employees (definitely not all) requiring a return to the office in October of 2024. Although the rumors haven’t been confirmed by anyone at RTX yet, here’s what I know so far. RTX’s New Return To Office Policy…