This week the CEO of the polling company Gallup made a bet: “When the pandemic wanes and something close to ‘normal’ returns, we conclude that there will be a 37% reduction of in-person [i.e., in-the-office] days worked per week for those 60 million employees who can work from home,” Jim Clifton wrote in a post on the company’s website.
Gallup isn’t a newcomer to the study of our changing work habits in the COVID era; the company has been running regular surveys on employee engagement throughout the pandemic, tracking the ebbs and flows as workers have adjusted to the fluctuating situation. So, while Clifton’s 37% number may be a bet, as he calls it, it’s probably as good and educated a guess as you’ll find at this point.
