Why Are So Many Leaders Botching the Return to the Office?Leaders often claim that people are a company's most important resource, yet those who shun telework do not abide by this principle.

Following resignations and significant backlash from employees, Uberrecently abandoned its planto make all corporate employees go back to the office. You'd think Uber's leaders learned nothing fromAmazon's June 10 decisionto permit employees to work on a hybrid schedule after employee turnover and opposition. And neither Uber nor Amazon seemed to have learned fromGooglealready reversing its intention to have everyone in the office.

Each of these companies wasted millions of dollars in employee churn, recruitment challenges, decrease in morale and productivity and changes to staffing and office-management plans. Yet nowreports are suggestingthat Apple faces similar pushback from within.