🏢 After fighting hard to continue working from home, load shedding is now forcing many workers to return to the office.
Worsening load shedding and a deepening recession may mean that it is time for employees to participate in the ‘Great Return’ to their offices in 2023, as working from home becomes increasingly difficult for some.
“It is not for the reasons we would have wished for, but the reality is people who enjoyed working from home may simply have little choice but to return to the office because offices are typically better equipped with alternative power sources or installing solar panels,” says Linda Trim, director at Giant Leap, a workplace design consultancy.
“With a poor economic outlook, many people will want to be seen working at the office demonstrating their value. This year we could well see the reversal of the remote working trend of the last three years. Few people have the resources and patience to try and complete a full work day with no power for big blocks of the day.”
Hybrid working arrangements, where workers go into the office part of the week, gained broad, but often unsatisfactory, acceptance as a compromise between the rise in work from home and companies wanting people to return. “Even as companies demanded a return to full-time work, many workers held out. These are typically the higher-skilled workers and those who could perhaps find new work easily, but even these workers may find it easier this year to spend more time in the office and will be particularly motivated to
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