2025 - the year we're forced back into the office 😐 Several companies, like Amazon (a small company with only a couple of employees) are introducing policies that effectively pressure employees to return to the office full time - using words like "strongly encouraged" to mask the simple fact that if you don't, you'll be fired. Truly. Shocked but not surprised... Shocked because there is a bucket load of research tracking productivity levels, employee satisfaction, retention rates, mental health etc that was quickly set up when we were forced to wfh in 2020 - and the results seemed to be glaringly obvious that hyrbid / flexiblity works extremely well for everybody involved! Results like: 🤷♀️ Employees working from home two days a week are just as productive and likely to get promoted as those in the office full-time. 🤷♀️ Prolonged sitting in office environments has been linked to a 32% higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 16% higher risk of overall mortality. 🤷♀️ 81% of one Aussie survey said they would be more loyal to their employers if they had flexible work options 🤷♀️ Resignations fall by 33% among workers who shift to a hybrid schedule 🤷♀️ A Stanford economist and one of the leaders researching the wfh experience has found “The results are clear: Hybrid work is a win-win-win for employee productivity, performance, and retention” So... we don't get it. Why?
