These days, many companies are requiring their employees to actually come into the office, rather than enjoy the comfort of working from home, and not everyone’s happy about it. There’s a lot to love about working remotely, and a new survey reveals some of the top reasons employees don’t want to give that up.
Beyond, a flexible workspace and co-working brand, polled over 12-hundred full-time and part-time workers to find out why they’d rather not come into the office.
- It turns out, the people they work for are part of the problem. Nearly a third (30%) insist on working remotely because they want to avoid their bosses.
- The same number say they’d actually go to the office more often if their bosses weren’t there.
- Even more (66%) claim the reason they want to work remotely is the rising cost of living, 54% say they’d go into the office more frequently if it was closer to where they live, and 38% wish their workspace was better.
- Almost a third (30%) of hybrid workers say their employers don’t offer their preferred working arrangements.
Major companies like X (formerly known as Twitter), Meta, and Google have made staff return to the office, at least part of the time. At Google, workers are required to come into the office three days a week, as the company says not doing so may negatively affect their performance reviews. That’s led to “frustration” among employees, according to one of them, who says, “we don’t like being micromanaged like school kids.”
Source: Business Insider
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