55% Of Professionals Miss The Physical Office

Do you miss going into a physical office? As it turns out, more than ½ of professionals do.

In a survey of 1,124 remote workers by Blind, the anonymous professional network with over 3.6 million verified users, 55 percent said they missed going into the physical office. 42 percent reported feeling overall more stressed in the WFH setting, and 29 percent reported feeling overall less productive working from home.

Here are some key learnings (08/20-08/21)

55% of surveyed professionals miss going into a physical office
- 70% of Google professionals miss going into a physical office, compared to 31% of Salesforce professionals
42% of surveyed professionals state that compared to an in-office setting, their stress levels during WFH are overall higher
- 59% of Google professionals say their stress levels during WFH are overall higher

40% of Facebook professionals say their stress levels during WFH are overall higher

29% of surveyed professionals state that compared to an in-office setting, their productivity levels during WFH are overall lower

More data here.

One Amazon user writes: “Folks working at companies with a ton of in-office benefits (Google, FB) – do you miss the free food and everything while wfh? Have your companies offered to compensate in some other way? All put together, those benefits probably had a modest dollar amount associated with them.”