Are you returning to the offi ce, fi ve days a week?
Exploring the future of hybrid working.
year’s KPMG CEO Outlook survey: “Most bosses think you’ll be back in the office 5 days a week within 3 years” (Fortune), “Two-thirds of CEOs think staff will return to office five days a week” (The Guardian) and “Most executives expect a full return to the office by 2026” (The Times). Such headlines are often accompanied by predictions around the disadvantages employees not willing to return might face: “87% of CEOs globally – 83% in the UK – told us it’s likely or very likely that employees who make an effort to come into the office will be rewarded with favourable assignments, raises or promotions.” (KPMG CEO Outlook). So what do we really know about what the landscape looks like in the UK beyond the outlook of CEOs? Are workplaces really preparing for a return to the office, five days a week?
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ecently hybrid and virtual working news have been dominated by attention grabbing headlines from this
Exploring recent research can help, starting with this report: Flexible and hybrid working practices in 2023 (CIPD, 25 May, 2023). This report, based on YouGov survey data, explores fl exible and hybrid working in the UK with a focus on employer and employee perspectives related to changes to fl exible working law. What I found most useful is that the report gives you a sense of what the current overall scale of fl exible and hybrid working is in the UK, and also how many different practices this encompasses, with everything from working from home to having a four-day week and from zero- hour contracts to career breaks. Hybrid working, in the context of this
report, requires employees to still be in the workplace for a specifi c number of days per month or per week. The report states: “Over half (52%) require hybrid working employees to be in the workplace for a minimum number of days in the working week/month, while 46% do not. Private sector employers are
more likely to say they have a minimum requirement, and voluntary sector employers are more likely to say they do not. Overall, employees are most likely to be required in the workplace for two (35%) or three (33%) days a week. Is this a long-term trend? Or simply organisations operating more or less as before, but with more fl exible and
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