80% Of Professionals Say The Future Of Work Will Be A Remote/In-person Hybrid

Google’s CEO says the future of work involves a ‘hybrid model,’ and the company is already reconfiguring its offices for employee ‘on-sites.’ On Blind, an anonymous professional network, with 3.6M verified users, 80% of professionals agree with this approach to the future of work.

The platform ran a survey from 9/25- 9/28 and had 3,202 responses. The survey asked the following questions:

  1. In your opinion, the future of work will be:
  2. Does not being able to get together in person with your team negatively affect your work?
    1. Why or why not?

Key Learnings: 

  • Only 9% of professionals believe the future of work will be “As it was before (9-5, Mon- Fri)” 
      • Only 10% of professionals believe the future of work will be “fully remote.” 
      • 80% of professionals believe the future of work will be “Somewhere in the middle — a remote/in-person hybrid.” 
  • 45% of surveyed professionals state that not being able to get together in person with their team negatively affects their work
      • 64% of Facebook professionals say that not being able to get together in person with their team negatively affects their work
      • 63% of Google professionals say that not being able to get together in person with their team negatively affects their work
      • 56% of Uber professionals say that not being able to get together in person with their team negatively affects their work
  • As to why or why not?
      • One Lyft professional at Lyft says, “brainstorms/ fruitful chance encounters don’t happen” during WFH.
      • A professional at Apple has an opposing opinion, stating, “Everything we need to do can be done via webex.”
      • A professional at SourcePanel shares, “I’m social. I want to hang out with my coworkers.”

You can see the report highlighting the overall responses here.

A user at Facebook posted, “Sundar gets it – Hybrid WFH. I don’t know a single person on my team who wants to work from home full time, and yet the majority of my team would like to work from home some of the time. Facebook (and other tech companies) only seem open to an all or nothing approach currently, but it looks like Google might move forward with the model most employees actually want.”

“I see the future as definitely being more flexible,” Pichai said during a video interview for Time 100. Pichai was part of this year’s list of the most influential people in the world.

“We firmly believe that in-person, being together, having that sense of community, is super important for whenever you have to solve hard problems, you have to create something new,” he said. “So we don’t see that changing, so we don’t think the future is just 100% remote or something.”

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