{"id":554245,"date":"2023-02-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nearly-30-percent-of-work-remains-remote-as-workers-dig-in\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:00:00","slug":"nearly-30-percent-of-work-remains-remote-as-workers-dig-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nearly-30-percent-of-work-remains-remote-as-workers-dig-in\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nearly 30 percent of work remains remote as workers dig in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c02b6712\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c02b6712\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nearly-30-percent-of-work-remains-remote-as-workers-dig-in\/#Nearly_30_percent_of_work_remains_remote_as_workers_dig_in\" >Nearly 30 percent of work remains remote as workers dig in<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Nearly_30_percent_of_work_remains_remote_as_workers_dig_in\"><\/span>Nearly 30 percent of work remains remote as workers dig in<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/meeting_082721_ap-eric-risberg_remotework.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The pandemic may be winding down, but the work-from-home revolution marches on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 percent of all work h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened at home in January, six times the rate in 2019, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wfhresearch.com\">WFH Research, a data-collection project.<\/a> In Washington and other large urban centers, the share of remote work is closer to half. In the nation\u2019s biggest cities, entire office buildings sit empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the American workplace. The share of all work performed at home rose from 4.7 percent in January 2019 to 61 percent in May 2020. Some economists consider the remote-work boom the greatest change to the labor market since World War II.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s affected so many things,\u201d said Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economist and WFH researcher. \u201cIt\u2019s affected city structure. It\u2019s affecting days of the week that people play sport: golf, tennis. It\u2019s affecting retail. It\u2019s completely skewed, mostly in a positive way, the American economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 and 2022, employers gradually summoned American workers back to the office. Last spring, the back-to-the-office movement hit a wall, and the work-from-home population stabilized around 30 percent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Workplace experts say remote work is here to stay. Workers love it. Employers have learned to live with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s sufficient and growing evidence that people do work well when they\u2019re working from home,\u201d said Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University\u2019s D\u2019Amore-McKim School of Business. \u201cIt\u2019s not like everybody was working hard when they were in the office.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average worker saves 70 minutes of daily commuting time by working from home \u2014 and spends almost half of that extra time doing work: a win-win.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>A slim majority of Americans are back in the office for good. Many never left. That group includes the restaurant and retail sectors, factory and warehouse workers, bartenders and farmers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty-five percent of Americans can\u2019t work from home,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cThey all would like to work from home. They can\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A much smaller group, around 13 percent, work entirely from home. They include many IT and payroll workers, contractors and people who pick up the phone when you call customer service.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The remaining 30 percent of U.S. employees populate a vast \u201chybrid\u201d workforce. They are the bulk of suburban, white-collar America, mostly college graduates, comparatively well-paid.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout one-third of Americans can work hybrid,\u201d Bloom said. \u201cManagers, professionals. My students,\u201d future Stanford graduates, \u201cthey\u2019re all going into hybrid jobs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Much of corporate America has settled on a weekly formula of three days in the office and two at home for the hybrid worker. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are popular choices for trudging into the office. On Fridays, city centers can look like depopulated ghost towns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The work-from-home movement has reshaped the largest cities. Only last month, for the first time since the pandemic began, did the occupancy rate in urban office buildings <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kastle.com\/safety-wellness\/getting-america-back-to-work\/\">reach 50 percent<\/a> in the 10 largest cities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of last week, 49 percent of desks sat empty in Chicago, 53 percent in D.C., 51 percent in New York and Los Angeles. The figures come from Kastle Systems, a company that manages office-access security.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other researchers have identified about a dozen large urban centers where one-quarter or more of employees work entirely from home. The <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eig.org\/the-uneven-geography-of-remote-work\/\">top five telework cities<\/a>: D.C., San Francisco, Austin, San Jose and Seattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>For some mayors, tax collectors and downtown businesses, the remote-work boom has seeded fiscal disaster. New York, alone, \u201cis going to see about $12 billion less in expenditures in downtown Manhattan\u201d because of remote work, Bloom said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Working from home \u201cmeans less consumer spending, and it means less transit use,\u201d in big cities, said Adam Ozimek, chief economist at the Economic Innovation Group, a public-policy nonprofit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Long-term office leases have softened the tax blow. Many companies are stuck with unused space in empty buildings, rented on five- or 10-year terms. But they will eventually leave. When they do, Ozimek said, cities will have to repurpose vacant offices as residential dwellings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the end of cities,\u201d Ozimek said. But \u201cif cities aren\u2019t flexible and smart about how they change their fiscal policies and tax policies, you could end up in a bad situation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not everyone wants to work from home. Two-fifths of workers aged 50 and above prefer fulltime remote work. Three-quarters of 20-somethings, by contrast, want to spend time in the office.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Young people \u201care more likely to want to work in person and benefit from working in person,\u201d said Ben Zweig, CEO of Revelio Labs, a workforce intelligence company. \u201cBut also, for young people, it\u2019s much more important to be in a city, especially if they\u2019re single and dating.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Employers want less telework. Employees want more. The remote work \u201cgap\u201d amounts to roughly one day. The average worker would like to go in to the office two days a week. The average employer prefers three days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That dilemma begets another: Which three days should workers spend in the office? If a company allows employees to choose, then conflicting schedules can defeat the purpose of calling everyone in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou end up with meetings where some people are in person and some are remote, and that\u2019s the worst of both worlds,\u201d Zweig said. \u201cPeople go to the office and spend their days on Zoom calls. They end up thinking, Why the hell did I come in?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An easy fix is to send everyone home on Fridays and Mondays. On a recent Friday, occupancy rates in downtown office buildings dipped to 32 percent, according to data from Kastle Systems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some high-profile companies, including Disney and Starbucks, have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2023\/01\/13\/return-to-work-disney-starbucks-news-corp-end-remote-work\/\">made headlines by pushing back<\/a> against remote work. Yet, the number of CEOs lobbying for a return to fulltime office work \u201cis dwindling to basically zero,\u201d Bloom said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a for-profit business, you don\u2019t do things that massively piss off your employees and that don\u2019t improve performance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For elite job-seekers, remote work has emerged as the ultimate bargaining chip. Employers know this. The share of hybrid job listings has risen steadily since 2020, Bloom said. Employees will trade thousands in annual salary for the right not to schlep to the office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you withdraw remote work and your competitors are still offering remote work, you\u2019re going to lose your top talent,\u201d Larson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, employers seem to be <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/wsj.com\/articles\/the-job-market-for-remote-workers-is-shrinking-11674526943?gclid=Cj0KCQiAxbefBhDfARIsAL4XLRqOCWgvtUl-IQ2tme7MO-r1CPpkBLV7xZNyoDGAmXOrPOzBomWtzEkaAnS7EALw_wcB&amp;mod=&amp;psid=WSJ_DSA_GOO_ACQ_NA&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;ef_id=Y6M3tgAAAagtNG-h:20230216201512:s\">advertising fewer jobs that are entirely remote.<\/a> As the labor market softens, companies may feel they no longer need to dangle a \u201cwork-from-anywhere\u201d offer to lure applicants.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually think the all-remote model doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d said Prithwiraj Choudhury, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. \u201cThere\u2019s no company in the world that never asks its employees to meet occasionally.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The work-from-home movement shifts a company\u2019s center of gravity from a physical office to a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> platform. \u201cAnd your office becomes an ancillary tool,\u201d Larson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some forward-thinking companies take the work-from-anywhere concept to its logical conclusion, operating with no office at all. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are companies that are meeting in ranches,\u201d Choudhury said. \u201cThere are teams that are meeting in railway stations or airports.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Corporate leaders can choose to frame the remote-work movement \u201cas an opportunity or a threat,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd if I were a CEO, I would frame this as an opportunity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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