Tech industry’s ‘three-day work week’ may change the future of the office forever - The San Francisco Examiner

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Hybrid work is taking shape right now in the Bay Area in ways that may influence how the world works from now on, experts say.

• February 18, 2022 9:30 am - Updated February 18, 2022 1:51 pm

But hybrid work is taking shape right now in the Bay Area in ways that may influence how the world works from now on, experts say. Tech companies are converging around a model that will have impact on both The City and the global economy. And tech companies tend to adopt workplace changes together because any extra perk could help in hiring the best engineers. “The one thing we know about tech is that it’s largely a copycat industry,” he said.

And that recovery, Egan said, is under way. “Everything’s been ticking up,” he said. “In the past month, we’re seeing a bounceback as far as people on transit, in the office, out and about.” That upswing is likely to continue midweek. Some San Francisco tech companies are going to great lengths to resume those connections. Salesforce, The City’s biggest employer, is opening a 140-room retreat center near Santa Cruz to recapture “the spontaneity of water cooler conversations,” said Joseph Poch, a Salesforce senior vice president. “People want to get together, but they don’t want to come into an office and be sitting there alone.” Salesforce says three-quarters of its employees want to work in person with colleagues.

 

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