Workers vs Employers

The workers vs employer battle is still raging with most workers wanting a hybrid/home-based role and most employers wanting a return to the office. Who will win?

Home Working
Over the last four years, expectations of where you work have undergone a massive shift, with employees getting used to working from a home office and finding the cost and time of commuting to an actual office as a ‘significant deterrent’ according to a recent survey by the company Robert Walters.

According to this survey over 50% of professionals would seek a job move if they were required to work more in the office.

More Productive
But that is not the whole picture since, in contract to this, 36% say that working more days in the office would be a positive contribution to their routine.

Flexibility
So it seems that a flexible – and hybrid – working model is of great concern to many professionals, particularly when studies have shown that employers realise that there is a certain resistance to returning to the office, event though they would welcome it.

One of the first questions we get asked by candidates centres around hybrid and fully flexible working. One benefit that this brings is that it opens up the talent pool to businesses with employees’ home location not being a deciding factor.

Trust
Most employees embrace and prefer home working, but it seems employers do not citing productivity and management issues, trust and control in other words, as a barrier to success.

However, it can be argued that spending more time in the office (though not full-time!), can bring benefits such as more routine and more time face to face with colleagues and managers to get things done.

So who will win? Time will tell…