Originally posted on Fortune.com. By Lance Lambert.
A few months back, Fortune teamed up with NewtonX, a B2B market research company, to conduct our first-ever CFO survey. Now as employers debate back-to-work policies and vaccine mandates, we decided to team up again with NewtonX to conduct our first-ever chief human resource officer survey.*
Here are the big takeaways from the Fortune-NewtonX CHRO survey.
The pandemic didn’t just challenge the old workplace dogma, it ripped it to shreds. Not only can most employers function with their staffers being remote, they can excel.
That’s why increased workplace flexibility isn’t going away. Among CHROs, 85% say workers will have more flexibility in how often they come into the office in the post-pandemic world vs. the pre-pandemic workplace. Meanwhile, 58% of CHROs say staffers will have more flexibility on the hours they work.
Among all “knowledge workers”, 60% expect they’ll be fully remote (12%) or come in 1-2 days per week into the office (48%) once the pandemic ends.
Leadership has a different outlook.
Among CHROs, 70% see the future workplace as being 5 days per week (10%) or 3-4 days per week in the office (60%). Among all knowledge workers, that figure is just 40%.
We recently partnered with Fortune in their first-ever CFO survey. Discover what CFOs really think about the future of work.
read moreWe spoke with 45 CHROs who revealed what they learned in the last year, whether it was about themselves, their employees or their business.
read moreBased on the positive feedback we received from our latest NewtonX Current, in partnership with Fortune, we're expanding the report to answer: what does everybody else think about the return and future of work?
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