Although we may be in a transitional period, we believe hybrid working will be the dominant form of working arrangement moving forward. Why do we think this?
Since the lifting of the work from home guidance in January 2022, the majority of UK office-based businesses have adopted, formally or informally, some form of hybrid working. A common arrangement is where businesses request/require employees to come into the office two or three days per week – sometimes on designated ‘team up’ days.
Despite this, there still appears to be uncertainty and caution in actually enforcing hybrid working arrangements. However, employers have good reason to be cautious. After working from home for the best part of two years, mostly without adverse effects, employees expect employers to be flexible and the market is tipped firmly in their balance. Nobody wants to be heavy-handed when competitor employers might be more flexible and pay just as much, if not more.
Employee perceptions have shifted and the pandemic changed the way we work to the extent that there is no longer really a standard way of working. We consider below the variations and potential implications of what the future of working is likely to look like for office-based businesses, based around our view that hybrid working is here to stay.
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