Nearly half of UK professionals say they'd consider quitting over a full return-to-office mandate. Cost of commuting is the single biggest reason, and it hits younger employees hardest. Every RTO mandate gets sold as a trade: less flexibility for more oversight, tighter culture, better performance management. Nobody puts a number on the other side of that trade until people actually start leaving. This session does the maths properly. What attrition actually costs against whatever the mandate was meant to buy, who leaves first, and whether the control gained is worth defending once it's sitting on a spreadsheet next to the exit numbers. If you're weighing an RTO decision right now, or defending one you've already made, this is the session that makes you show your working. Key takeaways: - What attrition from an RTO mandate actually costs, set against whatever control or culture benefit it was meant to buy. - Why cost of commuting, not resistance to office life itself, is the leading driver of pushback, and what that means for who leaves first. - A framework for deciding whether an RTO mandate is worth defending once the real numbers are in front of you.