Sea change in work habits and preferences
Yesterday, Faiz Jillani has posted a poll on LinkedIn. The poll concerned people's preferences in terms of work arrangement and was posted in LinkedIn's Premium Career Group which is a popular one and may be fairly representative of public perception, at least in he hitech industry.
As you can see, the most popular arrangement was hybrid (some days onsite, some days remote) with 50% favoring it, the next one down is fully remote at 41% and on-site at only 9%. This is surprising, even to me, because the change is truly revolutionary. I would expect more than 9% of people to favor on-site work, for social reasons if nothing else. But this is based on over 26,000 votes cast and may well be representative. It is definitely telling though how far this new reality that practically did not even exist a mere 20 years ago has progressed.
As usual - do your own research, use your own brain, draw your own conclusions.
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Faiz Jillani's Poll on LinkedIn
23 June 2023
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This change happens due to the Corona, when we started to work from home.
It would have happened regardless, IMHO.
Business adapts, choosing optimal solutions. So at some point that would have still happened, IMHO.
The way we see that there are many people who want to work from home and earn money.
From now on, I wouldn't prefer working fully from office or home. Hybrid seems better, but I would love to choose whenever I go to office.
It's definitely surprising to see that only 9% of people prefer on-site work. I would have thought that more people would want to be in the office for social reasons, as you mentioned.
However, I can also see why hybrid work would be so popular. It offers the best of both worlds - the ability to work from home and the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in person.
That's pretty much exactly how I see it.