More and more employees return to offices

Only one in three companies return to the office full-time, according to the analyses of Grafton Recruitment and CBRE. Experts indicate that remote work, although popularized, has its drawbacks. Therefore, employees often agree to return to normal work without any problems, especially when the employer provides the necessary safety measures.

“A permanent home office was most often chosen by companies from the IT sector, but also advertising, marketing and communication. Therefore, these are industries where it is very easy to transfer all activities to remote channels and this form of work was practiced in part even before the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. Today, after the end of the honeymoon period associated with regular work from home, there is a strong desire and need among companies and employees to return to the reality from before the epidemic. We lack office space, everyday relationships with others and the possibility of meeting.” Mikołaj Sznajder, director of the office space department at CBRE, stressed.

The Grafton Recruitment survey shows that 26 percent of companies have returned to work full-time, which means that the office is filled with employees every day. The vast majority of enterprises, as many as 64 percent, decided to use the mixed mode, which combines remote work with that performed in the office. Most often this means that in one week half of the workforce comes to the office space, while the rest work remotely, and the next week there is a shift. Mixed mode allows employers to manage the space more easily and to ensure adequate spacing between employees. Only 10 percent of companies have permanently introduced remote work.

(WBJ)