In survey data it looks like 30 minutes of that day is spent working more, 40 minutes is spent on other things. So if you are working from home two days a week, on average, you are saving 70 minutes a day commuting. Where do those numbers come from? They come from two places. The numbers here are low, but the central estimate of over a number of studies is 3%, 4%. I’m talking to a number of companies that say it’s a bit tricky now to transition into, ‘OK, you’re coming in for the same number of days, but we’re going to choose which days, or at least at the team level you need to coordinate.’ If you look at the surveys, the key reason by far that people come into work is to see colleagues and work with colleagues.īenefit two is it improves productivity. Most people, apart from introverts, have complaints about coming in and it being quiet and dead and people shouting into laptops-and what’s the point of coming in to be on Zoom all day? This makes things harder now. We’re going to let people choose, to deliberately space them out.’ And everyone you speak to complains about the result of that. So the fact that hybrid has become dominant tells you it’s generally working.īut what’s been tricky is there has been this transitionary phase whereby employers said, ‘We’re going to move to hybrid, but we want a bit of social distancing in the workplace. You don’t need surveys if everyone’s voting with their feet- you know that’s really the best outcome. As an economist, there’s something called ‘revealed preference.’ If people are always choosing product A over product B, product A has to be, for the price, just a better deal. And the fact that most firms are adopting it tells you that. Generally I think hybrid has worked really well.
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