America among leaders in refusing to return to the office: The number of daily commutes to work has dropped 20% on 2019 as employees at Apple and JP Morgan demand to continue WFH
The number of US work trips to and from work every day has dropped 20% from before the COVID-19 pandemic to now, a new study finds
Researchers also found in a survey that a large portion of Americans plan to quit their job if they are forced to work five days a week in the office
On average, Americans who responded to the survey report around 1.5 days of working from home every week
High profile companies like Apple, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase have clashed with employees over work from home policies, with others like Airbnb and Twitter allowing full time remote work going forward
High profile companies like Apple, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase have clashed with employees over work from home policies, with others like Airbnb and Twitter allowing full time remote work going forward
AirBnB not only allows WFH, it promotes it. Absolutely great for it’s business, if you can now work from a vacation home. We recently had a traveling nurse in our community, who was accompanied by her partner, who was WFH by her side as they went from assignment to assignment.
Eldest refuses to even consider job offers dangled in front of him by head hunters if they are not WFH. His company allowed it liberally pre-Covid, with the pandemic making it permanent. They sold their office building in that city, though I believe they still have three others elsewhere.
WFH is one reason why Millennials finally are taking the housing plunge, IMO. More square footage, including an office or two, has become critical. I don’t see WFH disappearing any time soon, only getting more accepted as the older generation of managers gets replaced by the next generation.
I never understood the resistance to work from home. Seems like people’s work should be judged by the results they produce.
Way back when, we had a shortage of office space, and some of us started working at home part time. It was easy for me to see who was doing their job and who wasn’t, and a quick private conference usually cured the problem if someone wasn’t.
Nowadays, with zoom and other on-line meeting software, there is really no need to go into the office most of the time.
“a large portion of Americans plan to quit their job if they are forced to work five days a week in the office”
What portion of Americans work ‘in the office’?
Also, what portion of those would actually quit if they were required to actually work ‘in the office’ vs those who say they are planning to?
No one is ‘forced’ to work in the office. It might be a job requirement, and if a significant portion of those jobs allow WFH, then people will change jobs. But if most office jobs return to previous status quo, most won’t quit because they have nowhere else to go.
Food for thought: what demographic groups are most represented in office jobs?