Specifically, out of the 2,670 companies surveyed, only 3% of CEOs want workers back into the office full-time, compared to 8% in 2024. Instead, 56% of leaders are now opting for a more liberal ’employee’s choice’ model, which gives workers agency over where they decide to work. This is compared to only 36% of CEOs that embraced this policy in 2023.
Not only does the employee’s choice model make the company more attractive to new recruits, but it’s also more likely to appease the desires of current employees. What’s more, while the assumption may be that most workers faced with this choice would choose to work from home more, avoiding the cost and effort associated with the morning commute, the results from Flex Index found that most workers choose to work from the office at least a couple of days a week if the option is available.
These result chimes with findings from Tech.co’s own workplace report, which found that 38% of employees at hybrid working organizations choose to come into the office more than they are required, and questions the notion that employers have to crack down on remote work to get staffers back into physical offices.