Only ‘very special’ workers will keep remote working, says world’s biggest talent company CEO

As Instagram employees join the millions of workers who were slapped with a return-to-office mandate in 2025, remote work is fast becoming a status symbol.Sander van ’t Noordende, the global CEO of Randstad, which places around half a million workers in jobs every week, says the great return-to-office war is effectively over—and a new pecking order has emerged.While rank-and-file staff are dragged back to their desks, the CEO of the world’s biggest talent company says only star performers will be able to cl ...