Office Attendance is Becoming a Performance Metric

A study on office mandates by Gartner, the human resources consultancy, found that "high-performers, women and millenials, three groups that prize flexibility, are the biggest flight risks."  In practice, this means that even the strictest rules can be bent, often to favour higher performers and more senior, hard to replace, executives.Brian Elliott, chief executive at Work Forward, said: "Managers are stuck between a rick and a hard place: increased demands to do more with less run up against the potential loss of productive employees or certainly the loss of engagement. Side deals get struck: as long as you continue to perform, I'll look the other way."