If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

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If you currently work from home or are hybrid, how much extra would you want p.a. to work from the office 5 days per week ?

Just that really.

It’s not about the money.

I'm currently in the office twice a week. I'm knackered and stressed after those days from the commute into London. Sometimes I've been stuck on a closed motorway for hours. You couldn't pay me enough to make me go in 5 days a week.

Depends where you're expecting me to commute to doesn't it?

If the office is less than 30 minutes walk away, I'd do it for free.

I WFH in the East Midlands - HQ is near Bristol so it wouldn't work unless I moved and I can't afford to live there.

If your contract states you need to work in the office then there would be no extra. If your contract is for homeworking and they want you to go in, then they need to renegotiate your contract with you. However, personally if you are fulfilling the same role you should not get paid extra.

The office I was based at pre-pandemic was a 10 minute drive, or 40 minute walk. I now work permanently from home, with one day a month physically in the office.

They have now closed that office permanently, and I would need to drive to the other office, which has no public transport. That would be 40-45 minutes each way.

So I would be looking for enough to cover the cost of buying a car (car sharing with DH would not be an option) and to cover petrol costs. So quite a substantial increase.

Which is never going to happen!

I’d love to be able to go in to an office! For 2-3 days a week, with flexible hours I wouldn’t need paying. For five days a week with inflexible hours I’d want an extra £200/month if travelling more than 30 mins as would be spending much more on food and travel and losing some quality of life. What would be really nice is access to a coworking space near home.

Triple my salary to buy in what I now have in life balance.

I won't be considering any future roles that are not hybrid with no more than 2 days in the office.

nothing extra. the huge benefits in work life balance (for me) do not have a price tag.

I work from home fully remotely and no amount of money would persuade me to ever go into an office full time ever again. I can't believe we all did it really, it was always a bullshit idea. I go in when I need to for team meetings but other than that, what a waste of time and money it is.

I realise though that I am lucky as a) I'm experienced and towards the end of my career b) I can pick and choose jobs as my experience is sought after c) I am well paid already d) I have plenty of space to WFH, my own office. I realise not everyone is in this position.

I'm hybrid and fully flexible between 7am and 8pm. To change that it would cost alot, maybe even double for me to consider it. Honestly it makes my life so much better.

Well it costs me about £60 overall every time I go to the office, so at least that, and then some more for the four hours a day lost commuting. Although if I went every day I guess there would be some kind of season ticket, I bet it wouldn't take that much off though.
In reality, I wouldn't do it.

There isn't an amount of money that would get me to agree

I work fully remotely for a team in London (I’m NW). There wouldn’t be enough money to make me do that commute, but if there was an office within walking distance I’d happily go on every day.

No firm within a reasonable train/car commute would pay me what I get from my current job, but if they did and added say 20% I’d commute every day.

To those of you saying that there is no amount of money that would make you go to the office 5 days a week, I’m fairly sure for most of you, there is a figure, even if it’s a ridiculously high figure.

My office is only a 20min drive so I'd be happy to do it, especially as my contract is currently for 100% office based. We don't have enough desks for us all to be 100% office based so some of us always have to be at home. I quite like office work though

Of course. I was really asking for each individual for their circumstances.

10 grand a year would do it for me, and it'd have to be within 30 minutes.

One million £ per year please. Then I would retire after one or two years having saved the money.

I think employers underestimate the wellbeing benefits (for some) of this kind of work/life balance.

Double honestly. Flexibility is almost priceless.

Difficult to quantify. I guess you'd start with "Money saved commuting" less "money spend on heating". But that disguises the fact that gaining (say) 10 hours a week is a helluva positive change.

How much would you be paid for 10 hours at work ?

Not enough money in the world to get me back into an office. I have wfh for 10 years now and couldn't face the presenteeism, office politics and mindless small talk.

Honestly there is no figure that could get me to the office 5 days a week. The amount of presence I am able to have in my children's lives due to hybrid working cannot be bought for any amount of money. Currently I am able to take them to school 4 mornings a week, and I pick them up when school finishes twice a week. I am also able to facilitate them doing after school activities. If I went to the office 5 days a week I would drop them off at a breakfast club, and pick them up around 45 minutes before they need to start getting ready for bed each day. No amount of money makes that the life I would want for my children.