Health Transformation Institute (HTI)
Joaquim Cardoso MSc.*
Chief Researcher and Editor
November 6, 2022
(* MSc from London Business School — MIT Sloan Programme)
The in-office tug-of-war continues
Future Forum
October 2022
Findings from the Pulse show that executives and non-executives alike are embracing the hybrid working model, with 65% of all workers saying they would prefer working some of the time from the office and some of the time remotely.
- While both groups want a hybrid approach, executives want to spend more time in the office and less time remotely, while the opposite is true for non-executives.
- Nearly twice as many executives (38%) say they would prefer to work from the office three to four days a week, compared with 24% of non-executives.
- And non-executives are more than three times as likely as their bosses to want to work fully remotely.
Nearly twice as many executives (38%) say they would prefer to work from the office three to four days a week, compared with 24% of non-executives.
And non-executives are more than three times as likely as their bosses to want to work fully remotely.
But leaders who respond to new stressors by pushing for old ways of working — such as issuing top-down mandates designed to return workforces to the flexibility-limiting conventions of the old 9-to-5, five days in the office — are likely to experience resistance from their employees.
But leaders who respond to new stressors by pushing for old ways of working … are likely to experience resistance from their employees.
“If you’re thinking in terms of ‘returning’ — returning to the old way, returning to the way the office used to be, returning to what worked for you — then it’s time to rethink that direction,” says Ryan Anderson, the Vice President of Global Research and Insights at MillerKnoll, one of the founding partners of Future Forum.
“We need to move forward to a new path, and that requires engaging your employees to establish new ways of working together.”
“If you’re thinking in terms of ‘returning’ — returning to the old way, returning to the way the office used to be, returning to what worked for you — then it’s time to rethink that direction,” …
“We need to move forward to a new path, and that requires engaging your employees to establish new ways of working together.”
Names mentioned:
Slack; mlt; bcg; millerknoll
Brian Elliott, the Executive Leader of Future Forum
Ryan Anderson, the Vice President of Global Research and Insights at MillerKnoll
How to cite this report
Fall 2022 Future Forum Pulse, https://futureforum.com/research/pulse -report-fall-2022-executives-feel-strain -leading-in-new-normal/
