Workplace Attendance

Hybrid may not be the answer for everyone, but it is the answer at the moment for most, as the responses below testify.

For those who attend the workplace the same days each week, anecdotally it appears that Tuesday–Thursday are, as before, the peak days, with Monday being busier than Friday. This is really no different from the situation pre-pandemic (in terms of measured utilisation patterns, at least).

That the highest response is for attending the workplace when there is a purposeful need to be there, is welcoming.

9. Current observations

effectively full time in the workplace hybrid-people typically working the same days week in, week out hybrid-workplace attendance depends on meetings etc. predominantly remote with some workplace attendance don

For those who responded ‘other,’ the responses refer to a mix of the two hybrid responses and to variations across the business dependent on the nature of the role. No one size fits all—there we’ve said it.

For some, hybrid working is the natural response to an increased employee expectation of flexibility, where the job function supports a level of flexibility.

For those who have a more operational role, or for whom processes haven’t been developed sufficiently to support hybrid working, being in the workplace full time might not be what they would like, but it is what the job function demands.

It would be interesting to ask the 43% who have no formal attendance policy whether in fact there is a formal policy, it's just that there is no mandated number of days expected in the workplace. SPACE knows of one client whose formal policy was that there is no formal policy.