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This is true. They railed against it for years for exactly that reason. Same goes for flexible working requests. Almost overnight in many cases, they moved over to homeworking or some form of hybrid working. I am seeing many employers taking a “who knew it was possible to do that?” line and didn’t we do well pulling together to make that happen, when in reality it was always at their fingertips to do at any point they wished but they resisted it. It completely shatters the myth that people who work from home are unproductive. Long commutes, excessive hours/presenteeism, and toxic office environments are bigger culprits in making people unproductive.
While hybrid working is popular, I wonder how long it will take for employers to hang on to the remnants of office culture when the financial and organisational incentives of homeworking become ever clearer.
Where we depart on this though is that Dickinson’s Real Deal should be the go-to position, if you are taking a break.
