Gap Mandates Full-Time Office Return Starting Today
Gap Inc. is the latest major corporation to announce a full return-to-office (RTO) mandate. The order applies to all corporate employees who live near an office and will start in September 2025.
San Francisco Business Times first reported the story on February 7, 2025, giving employees a five-month ramp-up period.
Here’s everything you need to know about Gap’s RTO policy.
Gap’s Return To Office Policy
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As of today, every corporate Gap employee is expected in the office full-time.
Gap employees are returning to the office today.
Starting September 2, 2025, Gap Inc. is officially requiring corporate staff to work from the office five days per week at its San Francisco headquarters. The updated return-to-office (RTO) mandate ends the company’s previous flexible work model and aims to “energize culture,” according to executives.
The ramp-up to today’s full-time office return included several months of transition, during which only about one-third of employees had been coming in between Tuesday and Thursday, according to CoStar. Gap’s leadership stated that the new mandate is designed to strengthen collaboration and contribute to the city’s broader economic recovery.
The new policy follows years of evolving workplace models at Gap. Like most major employers, the company went fully remote in 2020. It later adopted a hybrid schedule before settling into the informal Tuesday–Thursday in-office cadence. That unofficial model has now been replaced with a formal full-week requirement.
Employees returned today, marking the first time since early 2020 that Gap’s headquarters at 2 Folsom Street is operating under a traditional five-day schedule.
View All Return To Office Plans For The Fortune 500
Gap is #278 in the Fortune 500 and the 23rd company on the list to mandate five days in the office (at the time of this article’s writing).
Every month, we update every Fortune 500 company’s return-to-office policy. You can download the Fortune 500 RTO spreadsheet below.
