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There is zero personal or business benefit to me showing up at my office. Zero.
But there are significant intrinsic and extrinsic costs to do so.
No amount of increase will incentivize me to go into the office at all.
This is the way.
What's interesting about many of these replies is that no one REALLY calculates "commuting time" correctly.
At home you get your coffee and in my case, go upstairs to my loft where my home office is. That's it, I am productively at work.
I go into the office, it isn't just driving -- it's all the prep time, eating dressing packing out all at SPECIFIC times based on what type of traffic you want to avoid (or higher costs of metro and other mass transit type commutes)
You have to head out to your car load up etc etc before you ever start driving.
THEN when the DRIVING part of your commute is over there is the park/walk set-everything-up in whatever workspace you have (which may change continually) before you can actually DO anything. So your commute time is way more than whatever Google Maps says the "drive time" is
I'd much rather get on an airplane and go be on a client SITE then ever go back into a local office on a daily basis.
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50%+ Anything else just doesn’t feel worth it
Free lunch !
35% and it needs to come with quiet and flexible hours since I would be adding an additional 10 hours to my week on top of the already over 40 a week I put in.
totally agree with director. There is zero need for any of us to be in an office anywhere other than our home office, so nothing would incentivize me.
None. Plain and simple
None. Plain and simple
30%+
I’d take a 10% pay cut for 5-day RTO
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100%
20% tax free money for hybrid
I've spent my career proving that remote office work is not only possible but beneficial to both the business and the employees. With ever improving technologies, you can now meet face to face with any member of your team anytime and anywhere. The work-life balance is, on the whole, more important to the psychological health of an office than being in the same building(s) every day. Other responses overwhelmingly support this.
Having worked with multiple teams, both on-site and remote, there is no guarantee that any work environment won't be either beneficial or toxic.
The end result is, if you find a workable and comfortable incentive to go to an office, do it. Otherwise, be willing to move on. Employers are no longer loyal to their employees, so employees (especially consultants) need not be loyal to their employers.
It would have to be 200% +
I live in a low cost area and work in London 5 days a week would mean moving to London and for that I've done the maths I'd need 2 - 3x my salary to make it economically worth while.