This is how often workers disagree with bosses about working from home

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Workers and employers disagree on how much time staff should spend in the office 63 per cent of the time, research from the Melbourne Institute suggests.

Josephine Majewski accepts that Citi’s requirement for staff to attend the office at least three days a week forces some employees to come in more often than they would like.Although the policy might upset some employees, Ms Majewski said the benefits of collaboration, coaching and increased social interaction that come with greater office attendance outweighed any downsides.

Report author Ragan Petrie, an applied microeconomist and a professorial fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, said employees had become accustomed to theand had demonstrated the office is not the only place to get their work done. But while that is still a sizeable gap, it is smaller than the difference of 2.1 days that the same survey observed in April 2021, when these workers wanted to spend almost three-quarters of their workweek at home, while employers would let them spend just one-quarter of it at home.

 

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