Your company just announced a three-day return-to-office mandate. Two of your best engineers — both hired as fully remote, both two time zones away — tell you they'll resign rather than comply. Your VP expects you to enforce the policy with no exceptions. What do you do in the next two weeks?

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Stay specific. One example, told well, beats three told fast. Make your decisions visible — what you chose between. End on what changed, for whom.

Your company just announced a three-day return-to-office mandate. Two of your best engineers — both hired as fully remote, both two time zones away — tell you they'll resign rather than comply. Your VP expects you to enforce the policy with no exceptions. What do you do in the next two weeks?

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