The higher the salary, the greater the likelihood that employees would not accept a job that requires them to be in office full-time.
report points to the notion that the higher the salary, the higher the likelihood that employees would not accept a job that required them to be in office full-time. Higher income also made workers more likely to start looking for a new position that offers hybrid flexibility, the report states. Managers and other highly paid leaders have an expectation to give up some of that self-indulgence that can promote more remote or hybrid flexibility, Smith said. This is to avoid"the tragedy of the commons," a phenomenon in which individuals act in their own self-interest to the detriment of the common good.
"When they come to the office, it's a meaningful experience," he said. Rather than pushing for people to return for individual, heads-down work, that in-office time will have a higher impact in the form of events, collaboration and other unifying activities that invigorate workers and their outputs.