Recent surveys show, and many managers are learning, that their employees are often not interested in working from the office full time.

It’s easy to assume we know what they want due to a bias known as the false consensus effect, which causes us to perceive others whom we feel to be in our team as sharing our beliefs. As the following surveys show, and what many managers are learning, is that their employees are often not interested in working from the office full time.

Survey says…

To address the false consensus effect, we need to turn to objective data that don’t rely on our gut feelings and assumptions. A good way to do so is to examine the insights gleaned from several in-depth surveys of employees on post-pandemic remote work that has been published recently.^{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}

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