Distributed work: get it right and your organization will benefit
A survey of 158 US managers reveals that the overwhelming majority have put return-to-office policies on the back burner, with only six considering them important.
Some 27% of managers considered maintaining hybrid work a priority. In another survey, this one conducted by Deloitte, 65% of finance executives said they expected their company to offer the possibility of hybrid work arrangements from this year.
Distributed work, contrary to what many believe, is growing in the United States. Between 20% and 25% of people work from home for at least part of the week, down from 47% during lockdown, but up from 3% before the pandemic.
For an increasing number of managers, having their teams in distributed environments who do not come into the office every day is now the norm, and in no way entails a loss of productivity (in many cases the opposite), making it easier to attract or retain talent, particularly younger people.
The nostalgic managers who, after the pandemic, insisted above all else on forcing people to return to the office, citing productivity losses that could never be proven and that, in reality, only existed in their heads, have done a lot of damage to the normalization of distributed work, which, in today’s technological environment, makes perfect…
