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Is hybrid/remote work dying?

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Finallybreathe · 19/07/2023 21:44

Posting for traffic.

I was looking for a new job and I didn’t want to work in an office full time nor did I want to work from home full time… I was surprised to see how many jobs are no longer remote/hybrid but full time in an office. Thankfully my new job is 3 days at home and 2 days in the office. What’s happened?

What’s the working dynamic like where you are? Are you back in the office full time?

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VeridicalVagabond · 19/07/2023 21:46

3 days home and 2 days office but very very flexible, I often wfh the entire week or go to the office for more days if I feel like it. As long as the work gets done they don't care.

The whole company still offers fully office based, hybrid or fully home based. Lots of places still do hybrid, but fully home based seems to be getting rarer.

JollyGoodWine · 19/07/2023 21:47

Like you - 2 days in the office, 3 days at home, although some people choose to work more days in the office.

strawberryjeans · 19/07/2023 21:48

Mine depends really

Sometimes it’s no days at home, sometimes it’s 3 days at home. I’d say flexible within reason. Usually choose to be in the office for meeting-heavy days or days when my team will be in. If it’s a quiet day meetings wise or colleagues are on leave/working from home then I too will work from home.

SoullessInSeattle · 19/07/2023 21:50

I’m on a pre-covid 1 day office 4 day wfh contract but most people are on 60/40 hybrid. Any new position I go for will mean a change to the hybrid model.

mynameiscalypso · 19/07/2023 21:51

We've just moved from one to two days in the office per week. I've found that a lot of our younger staff are coming in to the office full time though - they like the social aspect and often live in house/flat shares and like the break from housemates. I will be interested to see how it changes over time.

Timetoflower22 · 19/07/2023 21:52

Work entirely from home. Love it

Glitterybee · 19/07/2023 21:53

Still fully remote, have been since 2017

Peppermint81 · 19/07/2023 21:55

Fully remote, company got rid of the offices during covid as all worked fine with us remote. Lowered overheads etc
Now meet for team lunches in the pub!

DuesToTheDirt · 19/07/2023 21:55

3 days at home, 2 in the office. It feels like a drag sometimes going into the office, although it's a short commute, but it can be really sociable so on balance it's better than being stuck in the house all week.

Azeroin · 19/07/2023 21:58

We have a minimum two “face to face” days (which usually means the office) per week. No set days. I usually do three in the office and two from home.

I work in a role that has an overview of working practices in a variety of sectors and there is a definite trend for rolling back on remote / hybrid working. I’ve heard of several employers now mandating specific days, actively enforcing minimum attendance in the office (including disciplinary action where people don’t comply), and even tying things like bonuses to attending the office.

That said, I’m not aware of any that have dropped remote / hybrid working entirely - more that they feel it’s become far too loose and a bit of a free for all, and so trying to pull back some control.

WhiteFire · 19/07/2023 21:59

Fully in the office - it is having a major impact on retention and recruitment but the PTB are too precious about us being in.

I have some negotiated flexibility (as part of an agreement to stay in post), but I am one of less than a one handed count.

tbh I don't really want to hugely work from home, but others do and unless the PTB let go of the need to micromanage R&R will be an ever ongoing issue.

I am still planning to leave, but I am also being very picky at what I will leave for.

Figgygal · 19/07/2023 22:00

I'm still mainly wfh but many are being expected in a min 2 days a week.
Dh starting a fully remote role in August his skillset is hard to find and companies are going remote for those roles to get people in post.

kikisparks · 19/07/2023 22:02

50/50 hybrid here. DH is 3 days in office and 1 day wfh (he has one day off with DD). I have friends anything from 100% wfh to doing most days in the office but I don’t know anyone 100% in the office.

HouseIsOnFire · 19/07/2023 22:06

Fully remote here, the whole company has the choice for full remote, full time in office or something in between across all roles.

Obviously would be difficult for me to be anything but remote as they hired me 300 miles from the office, but they have used it to widen the recruitment pool so pretty successful.

I imagine it depends on the company/industry, but we're global, so you'd be going in to ring another country anyway which makes no sense. Also very much solo work with bursts of collaboration, usually involving screen sharing anyway, so as easy remote as it is in person!

PowerBMI · 19/07/2023 22:08

Each team is different where I am.

It really depends on their role and effectiveness at home. 2 teams are back in full time. One team returned in 2020 due to poor performance. Another went back in mid 2021. Again due to poor performance.

the rest do a mix. Some do one office day a week. Some do 2. Some do more. Most of us might do more some weeks. I was in 4 days last week, but it’s usually 3.

Its definitely not dying off here.

PermanentTemporary · 19/07/2023 22:10

Dp has to do 2 days in the office. What bugs me is that being in the office is so politically charged at his work that even though he is still recovering from radiotherapy, he can't be allowed to go fully remote or even to drop a day, even for a short period.

I guess he should be grateful it's only 2 days.

BHRK · 19/07/2023 22:11

Fully wfh but did this before Covid

StJulian2023 · 19/07/2023 22:11

I’m normally in the office 3/4 days but today I WFH because I spent yesterday working in an otherwise empty open plan office and I found it creepy and demotivating. It’ll be like that quite a bit over the summer - combo of hybrid working and people’s annual leave. Got loads more done at home today with my cat as co worker. Back in tomorrow for some face to face meetings.

Dazedandconfused10 · 19/07/2023 22:12

Fully remote, we don't have an office, neither did my precious company

Nottodaty · 19/07/2023 22:13

I’ve recently changed roles, hybrid working 2 days in the office a week. My previous company flexible but they were starting to expect people to come in at least once a week but definitely struggling to get people in. Quite a few have moved away & cancelled ASC etc When i left a few people are trying to find fully remote roles but there are less available & the pay isn’t great for those roles.

ElFupacabra · 19/07/2023 22:15

I’ve just secured a role wfh baring occasionally
travel to London or Oxford offices. Likely to be once a month / once every 2 months.

The entire company seem to be a mix of WFH and hybrid. I do think it depends on the industry and the organisation itself. This one is a national charity with hubs across the country so remote working has always worked and made sense.

Darcy86 · 19/07/2023 22:15

Hybrid here with 1 "mandated" day in the office but occasionally do more if need be. Most people do 1 or 2 days in the office and it's pretty flexible. It works for most of us and I can't see it dying out in our company.

plasticwallet · 19/07/2023 22:15

I know very few people who aren't hybrid & lots of them were like this pre pandemic.

plasticwallet · 19/07/2023 22:16

The ones not hybrid are hospital & school staff. Even the police I know are hybrid.

RufustheFactualReindeer · 19/07/2023 22:17

I work for a local council and its one day in the office for both full and part time workers