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RWS and the RWS logo are trademarks of Beka Business Media Results from a recent report on worker productivity presented by Robert Half Talent Solutions might hold interesting answers to some of the trickiest questions surrounding hybrid work schedules: determining which days workers come into the office and who makes that decision. For starters, the data suggest workers are productive at similar rates throughout the day and the week whether they are on-site or remote. And remote working hasn’t had much impact on the times and days people are most and least productive. Results from 2022 are consistent with a similar survey conducted in 2019, before the rise of remote and hybrid work, said the researchers. If anything, we are shifting more of our workloads to Mondays (and we’re likely doing more during the weekends), with Monday mornings, in particular, being the most productive time of the week. The pinnacle of productivity appears on Mondays among in-office workers, at 46 percent, followed by Mondays among at-home workers at 40 percent. That seems to be in some conflict with the common scheduling practice of Mondays being a remote day, with Tuesdays through Thursdays being the primary in-office days. One could make a case for the idea of bringing employees together into a collaborative space during the moments of peak productivity, to build a type of collective productivity, with lower-productivity minutes being better suited for remote work, where employees can be productive at their own pace. In other words, Mondays and the early part of the week should lean more toward in-office, with remote days coming later in the week. Going even a step further, rather than limiting things to hybrid work weeks, what about hybrid work days? In such a scenario, hybrid employees could come together in the office during their most productive morning hours, returning home for lunch and then booting back up and logging back on during that post-lunchtime second wind. Or maybe they take a longer lunch and work into the late evening. It’s all about worker flexibility, right? The upshot is that workers would be brought together and on-site primarily during their most productive hours. During the least productive hours, the data shows very little difference whether one is at the office or at home. If nothing else, the worker productivity analysis suggests there are certain days and times that workers should be asked to come into the office rather than allowing each individual employee to randomly choose when they work on-premises and when they work remotely. Hybrid’s ‘Which Day’ Dilemma ! How will you approach SASE technology selection? If your employer decides not to oer opportunities for you to work remote some or all of the time long term, how likely would you be to look for opportunities for employment with other organizations? Source: Gallup 44% 19% 19% Separate vendor for networking and security Single vendor for networking and security Consumer via an MSP or Telco Exclusively remote % who chose “extremely likely” Hybrid On-site 37 60 19 29 11 15 June 2021 June 2022 Most Productive Day for Workers Source: Robert Half 46% 40% 35% 25% 11% 12% 6% 7% 6% 43% 31% 20% 13% 11% 5% 6% 5% 12% 29% 27% 5% 5% 4% MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT+SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT+SUN Remote In-oce 2019 2022 Most Productive Ti e of Day for Workers Source: Robert Half 6-9 AM 9 AM-12 PM 12-1 PM 1-4 PM 4-6 PM 6-9 PM 9 PM-12 AM 31% 66% 10% 36% 14% 4% 3% ! How will you approach SASE technology selection? If your employer decides not to oer opportunities for you to work remote some or all of the time long term, how likely would you be to look for opportunities for employment with other organizations? Source: Gallup 44% Separate vend r for networking and security % Exclusively remote % who chose “extremely likely” Hybrid On-site 37 60 19 29 11 15 June 2021 June 2022 Most Productive Day for Workers Source: Robert Half 46% 40% 35% 25% 11% 12% 6% 7% 6% 43% 31% 20% 13% 11% 5% 6% 5% 12% 29% 27% 5% 5% 4% MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT+SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT+SUN Remote In-oce 2019 2022 Most Productive Time of Day for Workers Source: Robert Half 6-9 AM 9 AM-12 PM 12-1 PM 1-4 PM 4-6 PM 6-9 PM 9 PM-12 AM 31% 66% 10% 36% 14% 4% 3% 6 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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