Founders and workplace experts said that post-pandemic AI startups have a different work dynamic.
AI startup employees often voluntarily come to the office and work longer hours without an RTO.
Founders said that in-person work fosters a high-trust environment that spurs innovation.
"What is an RTO?"
That was Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash's response when asked by Business Insider whether he had ever had to send a return-to-work (RTO) memo to push employees back to the office of the cloud compute startup.