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From the post:
>Lobby turnstiles click louder these days, with corporate chiefs extending mandatory office schedules and federal administrators tightening attendance rules.
But according to new research in the Flex Index, the reality feels quieter. One reason is that people show up just long enough to appease the scanner, then vanish back to environments that let them think.
Required in-office time from employer mandates climbed 13 percent between 2024’s second quarter and this year’s, from 2.49 to 2.82 days per week. Yet physical attendance stayed nearly flat, inching up 1 percentage point over that time. Stanford economist Nick Bloom summarizes the pattern in six deflating words: “Attendance is flat as a pancake.” Rules multiplied; compliance did not. The data expose a mismatch between what leaders decree and what professionals accept.
Archive: https://archive.today/kJc2f
From the post:
>>Lobby turnstiles click louder these days, with corporate chiefs extending mandatory office schedules and federal administrators tightening attendance rules.
But according to new research in the Flex Index, the reality feels quieter. One reason is that people show up just long enough to appease the scanner, then vanish back to environments that let them think.
Required in-office time from employer mandates climbed 13 percent between 2024’s second quarter and this year’s, from 2.49 to 2.82 days per week. Yet physical attendance stayed nearly flat, inching up 1 percentage point over that time. Stanford economist Nick Bloom summarizes the pattern in six deflating words: “Attendance is flat as a pancake.” Rules multiplied; compliance did not. The data expose a mismatch between what leaders decree and what professionals accept.
