Return-to-office mandates tighten as Monday.com keeps hybrid model

A fresh return-to-office tracker showed just how far the pendulum has swung back toward the office: 55% of Fortune 100 companies now require five-day attendance, up from 5% in 2021, and 37% are actively enforcing attendance, more than double last year’s 17%. The tracker, updated April 29 and built from public news reports and company announcements for 125-plus employers, suggested the debate is no longer a simple remote-versus-hybrid split. It now runs from full-time office rules to three-day, four-day, and flexible models, with enforcement becoming the real pressure point.

For monday.com, that market shift matters even as the company holds its own line. Its careers page says the company offers a hybrid work model, with most teams spending three days a week together in the office to collaborate and connect, while keeping flexibility to work where they do their best work the rest of the time. For engineers, product managers, and sales teams, that creates a clearer contrast with peers that are tightening faster, especially in tech, finance, and other knowledge-work sectors where office expectations are hardening.

That contrast is not abstract. monday.com opened a new North American headquarters in New York City at 225 Park Avenue South, a 110,000-square-foot space spread across four floors that triples its prior footprint in the city. The company also expanded in Denver with a 26,000-square-foot office designed to support growth in the region and a larger North American presence. Taken together, the physical investments show a company still betting on in-person collaboration, even if it is not moving to the hard-line attendance rules now spreading elsewhere.

The broader message in the tracker is that flexibility has become something employers have to operationalize, not just advertise. Companies that keep hybrid schedules are being pushed to explain the logic with more rigor: which days matter, which meetings belong in person, and how office time actually improves execution. For a company like monday.com, whose work-OS products depend on coordination across product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, the question is not whether offices matter. It is whether the office is used deliberately enough to justify the commute.