Working from home not going anywhere as in-office mandates fall
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"Return to office" demands appear to have peaked, with research noting a fall in mandates for a certain amount of in-person days. Five years from the start of the COVID pandemic, remote and hybrid models of working are now normalised.

“Return to office” demands may have peaked, with employers accepting remote, work-from-home and hybrid working, research from the Australian HR Institute has found.

A survey of human resources professionals shows employers’ demands for full-time staff to be in the office between three to five days are falling.

What’s next?

More than 80 per cent of survey respondents expect that hybrid working levels will increase or stay the same in the coming two years.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m okay with 1 day a week in office. I’d prefer every other week, but it’s good to have face to face conversations on occasion. But the office needs to understand I’m going to be much less productive those days. I’m leaving at 2 to beat rush hour, and I’m not making up that 1.5 hours of commute time after I get home (I will eat the morning commute though). I’m taking a lunch with my coworkers instead of working through it.

    When everyone understands that the office days are performative rather than productive, it’s not the worst thing. That said, keep fighting, my WFH brethren. Not everyone benefits from office time, and any time not spent in meetings it’s fucking ridiculous to see people sitting in a cubicle with headphones on trying hard to emulate the peace and productivity of just working from home.