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Companies are starting to realize, in office mandates aren’t enforceable in a remote world. Especially if you have highly skilled in demand employees. They can just leave for a remote friendly employer.
Please let those of us who’ve been in the market for months now know where all these employers are.
Hold the line - don’t let them do it to us
Chief
Example of a graph specifically intended to misrepresent the issue. That’s a 12% increase in average days required. Like from 3.0% to 3.36% for example? *gasp*
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/return-to-office-workers-fail-3d966807?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6nKZcJwqntYWaj6QuPvhTqCiINro79kErFn7CyDNoe1HDRTqlqvYduvK0FEA_aem_e95hBCu4VW4uYPEcCjiubg&mod=e2fb
Theyre starting to realize they dont have the office space and arent going to go purchase new space in this economy.
That is my biggest issue, I actually like going into the office, and would go more but on busy days our office doesn't have enough desks. And the desks we do have are just shared tables like I'm in a college library.
To even get a spot at a table I have to "reserve"a seat. If I need any privacy for a call, or meet with my team, I then need to reserve a meeting room.... Like I don't want have to jump through internal scheduling hoops just to work
Pre-covid, the place I worked at had a cubicle for each employee, and I hate that then, now I'd kill to get a dedicated cubicle 😂
How are they measuring how much people are in office exactly?
Key data sources
1. Flex Index
WSJ cites “Flex Index (required)” as the source of how many days companies are requiring employees to be in-office.
The Flex Index tracks corporate office-attendance mandates (e.g. minimum days in office required) for U.S. headquarters or corporate employees.
2. Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA)
For the “actual” days people report working in-office, WSJ relies largely on SWAA, a monthly survey that asks workers how many days they go into the office.
• The SWAA has been fielded monthly since May 2020.
• It collects responses from U.S. adults (ages 20–64) about work arrangements, including commuting, remote work, and in-office days.
• The survey is used to estimate, e.g., what share of paid workdays are full office days vs remote.
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How “Required” vs “Actual” get translated into the chart
• “Required” line: reflects how many in-office days policies demand (as aggregated across companies in the Flex Index).
• “Actual” line: reflects how many in-office days workers report actually going in (based on surveys like SWAA).
Like AI, this will negatively impact recent grads and have limited impact on those with 10+ years experience. Also depends heavily on what you do and career ambitions. Would like to see correlation on promotion with attendance.
Of course the new folks won’t get value if everyone with 2-3 years starts working remotely.