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 ?

[Cobwebs5]

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.

Double my salary, I’ve worked hybrid for 20 years, I would t go into an office 5 days for less than double my base salary

If i had to, I'd do it now for no extra money. We used to work in the office 5 days a week (apart from times like needing to be at home for tradespeople coming round or Dr's appointments etc) and I actually prefer it and it saves on the heating bills in the winter! Doesn't cost any more in food as I take my lunch and I walk unless the weather is terrible so wouldn't cost me anything other than time, but I gain exercise out of that.

I would leave my job if they wanted me in the office 5 days. Quality of life is as important as money to me, and wfh gives me and my family a much better life .

My place of work has changed since covid/hybrid. My commute has doubled, and car parking has increased. I get travel expenses for a limited time, but these payments are for 25p per mile, over and above my previous mileage, and are taxed. To put me into position I am in now (40% in office) I would need £1500 after tax.
Obviously this will not happen, will have to stay in my current job, I am nearing retirement and need to stay with the pension!

I work for a large company that had 12 offices nationally.

Due to hybrid working, we’ve reduced that to 8 and saved millions a year in rent. We’ve also been able to end the lease we had on a number of car parks that were for staff use.

All costs have gone down in the office- energy, teabags, paper clips, printing, and capital costs as there’s less wear and tear to premises.

Hybrid working saves companies a tonne of money.

I WFH 99% of the time which was also the case before Covid. The flexibility is priceless, especially now that I'm a parent so no amount of extra money would make it worth it.

Tricky. I'd be very suspicious of any job that mandated full return to office without good reason. It seems to translate as micromanagey and miserable. So I'd need a lot pf persuading to apply for the job anyway.

As I said it depends how far the office is. There is a point where commuting becomes impractical. I suppose you could pay me enough to stay in a hotel all week, but I wouldn’t want to.

I work 30 hours across 5 days for £60k. We have a mandatory two days a week in the office but I'm often in, or at events, more often than that. If my pay was doubled, I'd go in every day but I had flexibility to WFH pre-pandemic too. Sometimes, I need to get my head down and write and that's impossible to do in the office.

This what I was going to say. It would have to be a large enough amount that I could do it for 1-2 years and then either retire or take a serious career break.

@Cobwebs5 you want a figure... OK I would want £50 million. No way am I going back 5 days 9-5 with an hour commute when I can wfh 3 days a week and flexi.

I earn £85k at the moment and will do 2 days a week in office max when I return after mat leave.

Honestly I'd probably want an extra £100k, but more importantly a reduction in hours from 9-6 to 9-4 so I could actually spend some time with my child.

45 minutes commute or less - 20k

I’ve been approached for a role 50k more but 1-1.5 hours commute each way and I won’t go for it. I would be swapping my weekday time with my kids for sitting in traffic.

Pre baby I'd have said double my £45k salary.

Now that I have a baby I'd say a million quid so that I would work for one year, pay off the mortgage then spend time with my baby/family 💝

I am a contracted home worker but do attend the local office and a couple of further away ones maybe 1-2x per month

If I was told my contract was to be changed to work from the office completely then I would want an extra 1-2k per month on top of my salary! I have alot of flexibility in my job and can take my dc to school. Collect them when needed, not be sat in traffic daily etc

I would switch to a job with an office attendance requirement but I'd only be doing it for an extra 15k per year!

Hybrid and there wouldn't be an amount that was sufficient. I'm at the point in life where I value my time, health and general wellbeing far more than money. WFH a few days a week has been absolutely life changing, I'm a different person. I'm by no means wealthy or a high earner, but I've enough to live a comfortable enough life. No point in losing hours of my precious life chasing more money that I'd have less time and energy to enjoy.

I work full-time from the office. No amount of money could persuade me to do a stroke of work at home. For me, homeworking is a soul destroying, miserable way of going about things.

But ..... I know: you are not me 🙂

My current role isn’t fixed - we go in if we need to go in and sometimes that’s 5 days a week. We WFH the rest of the time and there are often weeks I don’t go in at all. The office is about 30 mins away so to go five days a week compulsory I’d do it for a fairly modest bump in pay - maybe £10k? However I’m changing jobs shortly and it’s one fixed day in the office but the office is a much longer journey away. On that basis I’d be looking for a much larger bump in pay to account for cost/time.

Those are the practical considerations. But the reality is that in terms of the mental load, benefits to family life of being around at the start and end of the school day, the quality of meals we eat because we’re home in time to cook, the overall benefits of the flexibility of being able to WFH - a role would need to be triple my current salary (c£50k) I think to make it worthwhile. Then I could
outsource a large amount of wife work and treat the kids to more quality time at the weekends.

I just wouldn’t
I go in once a week, at a push I’d go in twice but no more than that. Just not compatible really and more to the point in this day and age I’d be raising my eyebrows at companies insisting on having staff in the office unless it’s a hands on practical need.

but if you did it you’d need commuting /parking costs covered as a minimum. But then think about the cost of time spent commuting.

I’d save money working in an office. Someone else would be paying for my heating, lighting etc.

I do one office job where wfh isn’t an option and one wfh job where there is no office option. I find it the best of both worlds.

There is no amount of money that would compensate me for the time it would take to get to and from my office 5 days a week and all the things I would miss out whilst being at work - taking my child to school, being on time to pick up from wrap around school care, being able to nip out between calls to get/do something, sleep until 7.30am (would have to be up at approx 6am to be at work on time). No money will give me my time back, or balance my mental health out with the flexibility I have now.

I will never work full time in an office again.

£25k minimum. I would need to outsource much of my life because I WFH due to disability.

I currently wfh 5 days per week, earn £75k p.a., The commute to my nearest office would be 1.5 hours if I stayed in the same job.
To return to the office 5 days per week I’d require an extra £75k p.a.*

*And I'd still only to do on the basis that I'd be looking to leave as soon as another remote role came up.

A million a year should do it, post tax. Also there'd have to actually be an office I could get to.

I genuinely love hybrid working. It's the best of both worlds.

I get way more done at home even though I sometimes use my hours flexibly (e.g. start at 7 so I can take a run mid-morning, provided I have no meetings). My employer gets far more than my contracted hours out of me when I WFH! The hours I save commuting are spent equally on work and to my own benefit. The saving in fuel and wear and tear on the car are also appreciated but tbh it's the huge time saving I value most.

However, I also like being on site. I get less done because people want to speak to me all the time. However, these umpteen, sometimes spontaneous conversations with colleagues sometimes lead to new opportunities, but even those that don't help improve morale and boost the sense of team.

It's really about balance.

I wouldn't have left my old role (fully on site) if my current role wasn't hybrid. My contract stipulates hybrid so they can't force me either. But if it was suggested, I'd like an extra £5000 to compensate for the additional fuel and time costs. As employees aren't generally paid for travelling time though, I'd suggest £2000 pa is reasonable for the increased fuel of an hour commute by car an extra 2-3 days a week.