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The COVID pandemic pushed companies worldwide into an unplanned experiment of remote working to keep businesses going after strict safety measures were imposed.
Now that employees have realised that working from home is possible, many are reluctant to go back to the office, or at least not full time.
Globally, about one-quarter of workers would quit or start looking for another job if they were asked to return five days a week, research has found. Many would like to have flexible working hours or a shorter work week.
We talk to Adrian Wright, the director of the Institute for Research into Organisations, Work and Employment (iROWE) and Anthony Lepinteur, a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg.
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Now that employees have realised that working from home is possible, many are reluctant to go back to the office, or at least not full time.
Globally, about one-quarter of workers would quit or start looking for another job if they were asked to return five days a week, research has found. Many would like to have flexible working hours or a shorter work week.
We talk to Adrian Wright, the director of the Institute for Research into Organisations, Work and Employment (iROWE) and Anthony Lepinteur, a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst The Pandemic, unfortunate as it has been, has showed many that the way we work can be different to the one we were used to it. Many discovered that a digital world helps to work at home or anywhere while others saw that mixing office work with work from home was more exciting than just working at the office. Post Pandemic many have returned to the offices, but the change is already here. Changes in work hours, in ways to use the digital opportunities for a better work, whole companies experimenting with changes in timetables and ways to reconcile home and office life, and so on. Although this is not universal (even if a doctor can do a lot of things with a laptop, the physical meeting with a patient is absolutely needed) or in all fields, we can even forecast a future where manual workers are guiding cobots (collaborative robots) to work the difficult heavy manual work too, while office work will tend more to the creative thinking. A dream? We will see.