“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.
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More than 80 per cent of survey respondents expect that hybrid working levels will increase or stay the same in the coming two years.
Your sample size seems skewed, or at least it doesn’t match my experience.
Mostly my younger colleagues, those in their 20’s and early 30’s, miss the office and actually go voluntarily about 2-3x a week. They enjoy the flexibility of choosing when to go, but they need to meet new people around their age, bond, go out for drinks, all the “normal” things we old timers used to do before COVID.
Nowadays I don’t care for all that, I have my own family and social circles, but I totally understand their point. I just don’t want to be dragged back to the office because of that.
Same here. I do 100% remote but many of our customers have hybrid models or even total freedom and some people choose to go tue-thu to the office. Especially younger people, without family, and living in smaller apartments in city centers (bad wfh setup, not enough space, roommates).