rates of flexible work arrangements in the longer term. According to the latest data available, currently about 55 percent of U.S. workers are full-time onsite, and about 30 percent are operating in hybrid arrangements, while the remainder are fully remote. Among just the remote-capable employees, or the estimated 70 millionplus employees who have the ability to work from home, about 50 percent are working hybrid, while about a quarter are each fully remote and fully on-site, show separate findings from Gallup and WFHresearch.com. Those percentages have largely leveled off since the middle of 2021. The percentage of total paid full days worked from home, for instance, has hovered at about 30 percent of all workers and about 50 percent of remote-capable employees (RCEs) since April or May of last year, show findings from surveys of tens of thousands of respondents by WFH Research. Among workers with a four-year college degree specifically, the percentage of full days worked at home has stabilized at about 40 percent. And while the research institute found that the percentages of RCEs operating fully remote and fully in-office both have declined slightly, those declines have been more than offset by an increasing percentage of workers operating in a hybrid arrangement. Separating respondents by vertical market served, WFH Research analysts found that current levels of working from home are highest among firms within information/technology, finance and insurance, professional and business services, wholesale trade and real estate. Levels are lowest, not surprisingly, among the hospitality and food service, transportation and warehousing, retail trade and manufacturing sectors. Moving forward, employer plans for RCEs is to work 2.3 days per week out of the office, show WFH Research figures. And that number is steadily rising, up from 2.1 days per week at the beginning of this year and 1.6 days per week in January 2021. RCEs’ desired number of days working out of the office is a bit higher, at 2.8 days per week, but the gap between employees’ desired amount of days and their employers’ plans for postpandemic working from home continues to shrink. Indeed, a big reason flexibility in work location has become entrenched is because employees really like the flexibility and work-life balance it provides; and they like it a lot. That includes many of the senior leaders and middle managers who will be responsible for enforcing any RTO mandates. Further analysis by WFH Research, for example, suggests employees equate the ability to work three days a week at home and two in the office with an increase in pay of about 7 to 8 percent. RCEs who don’t work in their preferred arrangement, meanwhile, “have Percentage of Paid Full Day Worked from Home Source: WFH Research 0 20 40 60 80 100 Apr20 Jul Oct Jan21 Apr Jul Oct Jan22 Apr Jul22 All respondents Respondents who ever worked from home during COVID Current Working Arrangements: Full-time Employees Able to Work From Home Source: WFH Research 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Nov21 Percent Jan21 Mar21 May21 Jul21 Full-time on site Hybrid Full-time remote Percentage of Paid Full Day Worked from Home Source: WFH Research Source: Palo Alto Networks Risk of time and budget overruns Deployment eort Amount of training 23.6% 23.3% 22.9% 0 20 40 60 80 100 Apr20 Jul Oct Jan21 Apr Jul Oct Jan22 Apr Jul22 All respondents Respondents who ever worked from home during COVID Current Working Arrangements: Full-time Employees Able to Work From Home Source: WFH Research 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Nov21 Percent Jan21 Mar21 May21 Jul21 Full-time on site Hybrid Full-time remote 27 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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