Business survey shows most staff are not in the office fulltime

The pandemic has seen many workplaces adopt a 'hybrid working' model. Work-life balance, long commutes and fear of contracting COVID-19 or the flu are keeping many Australian employees comfortably working from home.

Source: AAP

The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry surveyed 88 C-B-D businesses.  The results showed that office staff still prefer to spend part of their week working from home. The survey found 42 per cent of employees are working in the office one or two days a week.  Twenty-five per cent are three or four days.  Just 19 per cent are in the office five days a week while 14 per cent had not returned to the office at all.  Almost 70 per cent of respondents did not expect employees to return to the office