Surprising New Data on Employee Sentiment and Flexible Work
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The Q1 2024 Flex Report is live!
Happy Birthday to Flex Index! For the last 12 months, we’ve been tracking the flexible work trends that matter most to you. Of course, we couldn’t do it without the 8,000+ companies on Flex Index, who collectively employ over 100 million employees across 60,000 offices in the United States and abroad.
To say that 2023 was a year of change is an understatement. We observed big firms like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Target decide to lean more toward hybrid work arrangements, while major players like Goldman Sachs and Tesla required employees back in the office full-time, garnering plenty of media attention for their plans.
In our upcoming report, we examine the state of flexible work in the US at the start of 2024. We also explore brand new analysis on the relationship between employee sentiment and work location flexibility, both in aggregate and in critical areas like culture and compensation.
Want a sneak peek of what’s in the report? Here’s a little preview👇 We’ll also discuss the latest findings in Thursday’s State of Flex webinar.
Structured Hybrid continues to rise in prominence
Only 20% of companies a year ago embraced a Structured Hybrid model, where employees are expected in the office a certain amount of the time. 32% of companies do now, a 12 percentage point increase.
Flexible companies outperform on employee sentiment
Companies offering work location flexibility significantly outperform Full Time In Office companies on employee sentiment. Fully Flexible firms, in particular, outperform on work-life balance, culture, and values, despite a common C-Suite belief that culture is built in person.
Face time means more opportunities
Structured Hybrid employers outperform Fully Flexible and Full Time In Office employers on career opportunities. That may be driven by a balance of in-office time for mentorship and training with remote time for heads-down, deep-thinking work.
In the Media
Forbes: Job sharing—when two or more employees share hours for the same job—provides flexible ways of working and could—is on the rise.
Drapers: Flexible working across fashion retail, from head offices to the shop floor, has been a knotty issue that some retailers and brands have struggled to unpick.
Forbes: “Shadow policies” are decisions by managers—apparently not afraid of their own shadows—allowing employees to work remotely even when the company's official policy requires them to be in the office.
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