SAN FRANCISCO–A new survey has found workers care more about flexible hours than they do about remote work.
The survey, conducted by Future Forum and led by Slack Technologies, found 95% of the 10,000 knowledge-workers who were polled said they want to set their own hours.
That’s compared to 78% of workers who want location flexibility. The survey was conducted in November 2021.
The survey also found that 72% of workers who weren’t happy with their level of flexibility—whether time or location—are likely to seek out a new opportunity in the next year.
“If they’re not getting what they want, they’re open to looking for a new job,” Sheela Subramanian, vice president of the Future Forum, told the Wall Street Journal.
‘Thinking Differently’
The Journal added in its analysis, “Many employers have reluctantly embraced long-term hybrid and remote work arrangements after repeatedly postponing return-to-office dates or finding that workers pushed back on going to the office. That has some executives thinking differently about in-person arrangements.”
Maeve O’Meara, chief executive officer of San Francisco healthcare-technology company Castlight Health Inc., told the Journal her employees should gather only when there is a specific need to do so. “We should really be organizing around bringing people together for an explicit purpose, whether that’s collaboration, innovation, planning or just socializing,” she told the publication.
Hybrid Work Environments Expand
The Future Forum survey also found that the share of people working in hybrid models, where they split their time between an office and a remote location, increased by 12 percentage points since May, as more workers have returned part-time to their traditional workplaces. More than two-thirds of those surveyed said a hybrid setup was their preferred way of working, the Journal stated.
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