68% of companies want employees to return to offices from the middle of this year

More than two-thirds of companies (68 percent) want employees to return to the office from the middle of this year, according to CBRE's "EMEA Office Occupier Sentiment Survey". Employers requiring employees to return to offices full-time are now in the minority, with 6 percent indicating so.

"Companies are definitely prioritizing choice over obligation. Only 6 percent of employers require employees to return to offices full-time. The vast majority, 7 out of 10 employers, allow the voluntary return to the office at the employees' discretion," the release reads.

"The vast majority of businesses (68 percent) will promote a regular return to the office and will do so even starting in the middle of this year. For one in four companies, this process has already begun, and 45 percent will implement it from the end of June at most. 1 in 6 entrepreneurs has not imposed a timeframe for when return to the office should happen. Rather, it's a process for employees to adjust to the new way of working. There are some notable sector differences, as nearly 80 percent of financial firms plan to return to the office more regularly by mid-year. In contrast, more than one-third of technology companies plan for this process, but without imposing a specific time frame on themselves," we read further.

CBRE's head of work environment and change management, Małgorzata Niewińska, pointed out that "companies stipulate, however, that office attendance rules may be imposed in the future."

(ISBnews)