Research consistently supports requiring new hires to attend in-office more frequently in their first 90 days than the organisation’s standard hybrid policy would otherwise require — typically 3–4 days per week rather than the 2–3 that established employees may follow. This is not a permanent policy change; it is a time-limited intensive integration phase. The in-office frequency should be explicitly framed as a transition programme, with a clear timeline for when the new hire will transition to the standard hybrid arrangement. This framing ensures that new hires experience the intensive in-office period as investment in their success rather than as a signal that the flexible arrangement they were offered does not apply to them.