Majority of Asia Pacific employees eyeing office return

Employees across Asia Pacific have adapted to extensive work from home arrangements, but most are eager to return to the office. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic across Asia Pacific, an average of 68 percent of employees surveyed regionally worked from home. According to JLL, 61 percent of the same respondents working remotely said they missed going to the office and would favor a hybrid model combining more flexible work arrangements in the future.

JLL’s new Asia Pacific report Home and away: the new hybrid workplace? argues that employees consistently believed that while they enjoy the freedom of working from home, they miss the human interaction and face-to-face collaboration that working in a professio