By: Jeff Clabaugh
D.C.-area companies in businesses that are able to continue offering post-pandemic remote work are not embracing it as much as might have been thought would be the case. In fact, an overwhelming majority of hiring managers are digging in their heels against it.
“From the survey that we sent out, 65% of local managers want their teams to be on-site full time. Employers may believe the office is still the best place to work, to collaborate and be innovative,” said Trey Barnette, regional vice president at staffing firm Robert Half.
Most likely to be pushing hard for full-time on-site work again in the D.C. area are finance and accounting and nonprofits.
Its survey also included employees and it, like other recent surveys, indicates that half of the professionals would look for a new job that offers remote options if their company required employees to return to the office full-time. That’s up 16% from a year ago.
Is that just talk, or would they really follow through?
“I can tell you right now, the statistics say that they are actually following through with that. We continue to see the Great Resignation, and that is not slowing up,” Barnette said.
Hybrid schedules — some days in the office, some days remote — were expected to emerge as a favored compromise by both employers and employees, but Robert Half’s recent survey found that just 38% of D.C. area senior managers say their companies will support it long-term.
Read more at WTOP.
