This roundtable discussion explored the trends driving increased flexibility in the workplace and considered a variety of different approaches to flexible working, with a spotlight on the four-day week.
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Flexible work can deliver both better employee engagement and real estate savings. Here’s how tenants and investors can prepare.
This report details the findings of the world’s largest four-day working week trial to date, comprising 61 companies and around 2,900 workers, that took place in the UK from June to December 2022. Most strikingly, the results showed that 92% of participating companies are continuing with the four-day week.
This new Workmonitor by Randstad provides the voice of employees around the world on what they want and expect from their employers and how willing they are to ask for it. It offers insight into what is shaping the new world of work in each of the 34 surveyed markets across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Americas.
This report from the University of Birmingham Business School and the University of York explores four key areas of change since the pandemic: managers' changing attitudes towards flexible working since the start of the pandemic; managers' future intentions in terms of support for flexible working; changes in spatial flexibility and use of office space; and changes around consultation and surveillance in the workplace.
This global survey of 900 business leaders and 1,800 knowledge workers explores how organisations taking steps to enable flexible hybrid work are performing against four key pillars that make hybrid working successful: tech empowerment, connection and collaboration, flexibility and fluidity, and trust and empathy. The report concludes that businesses find it most difficult to meet employee expectations in relation to work culture and attitude.
Slack’s new snapshot suggests that today’s workplace is centred around flexibility and that, without it, there is a high risk of employee attrition. It reports that fully in-office workers report lower employee experience scores compared to hybrid and full-time remote workers and that employees with rigid work schedules are three times more likely to look for a new job in the next year.
After multiple waves of COVID-19 and the continued delay of return-to-office plans, employers, workers, and the media are still asking, “How long will remote work stick around?” But the dichotomy between “still remote, for now” and “back to the cubicle” is a false one. Flexible work is no longer a temporary compromise—it’s a new reality. In this report, insights drawn from Handshake’s platform show that while remote jobs get nearly triple the applications that non-remote jobs do, Gen Z applicants still care about location and cost of living. These interplaying preferences are reshaping work in real time.
In this recent report, McKinsey explores that with endless meetings, incessant emails, and casts of thousands, companies have mastered the art of unnecessary interactions. Winning in the next normal requires much more focus on true collaboration in order to get things done.
While the move to flexible and hybrid working is widely accepted by businesses, their preparedness to implement such a strategy is not yet fully realised. That is the key finding from this new report from Siemens subsidiaries Comfy and Enlighted. Commissioned by Siemens from analyst firm Verdantix, the study polled 75 corporate real estate (CRE) executives from global companies with annual revenues of over $1 billion on the strategic considerations of redefining workforce models due to the COVID-19 pandemic.