In a post-pandemic world, 30 per cent of work will be at home: study | michaelkoziol
The permanent shift to working from home has major implications for companies, city planners and transport networks.The ongoing study, which surveys between 5000 and 10,000 American employees a month, suggests the preferences of workers and employers in the US have now converged at a point where both are happy with a hybrid model of office and remote work.
“Transport systems, at least in the US, stand to take a big hit,” Barrero, an assistant professor of finance, told the. “The numbers of commuters that you’ll see during rush hours on Monday through Friday are just not going to be the same.”Conducted monthly since May 2020, the survey consistently found employees liked working from home. While there used to be a “big gap” between what workers wanted and what bosses wanted, that gap has shrunk as employers warm to the hybrid model, Barrero said.
Recently, the researchers have investigated whether current work-from-home patterns might be the “post-COVID norm”. About 80 per cent of respondents who do some level of remote working say they are already following their employer’s long-term post-pandemic plan; only about 15 to 20 per cent say they aren’t in the office as much as their employer would like.“But they say that when that happens, they’re likely to face no consequences,” Barrero said.
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