Working from home becomes a once-a-week perk for some office goers
The entrance to Walt Disney Co. headquarters is seen from West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. It’s a form of RTO creep, as companies test what has emerged as the post-pandemic norm of two to three days in the office and fan the debate over remote work. BlackRock has said employees must be in the office four days a week starting in September, after nearly two years mandating three days on-site. “I wouldn’t be surprised if some organizations take their peers’ lead if they wanted to increase the frequency of on-site work,” said Caitlin Duffy, research director in the human resources practice at consulting firm Gartner Inc. “They may have not wanted to be an outlier.” At the same time, many workers have made major life changes around their hybrid work policies, rearranging things such as child care to where they live. At Disney, more than 2,300 employees signed a petition urging reconsideration of the policy, saying the mandate will result in “forced resignations among some of our most hard-to-replace talent and vulnerable communities” while “dramatically reducing productivity, output, and efficiency.” Two or three days a week is the sweet spot for employee engagement and well-being, according to a Gallup survey of more than 16,000 full-time U.S. employees conducted last year.
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