One of the most popular guessing games played by real estate investors and operators in recent months has been predicting when (or if) companies will return to the office — and to what extent. New insight has been provided on that front, based on a national survey that collected the thoughts of more than 350 business executives.
The survey, conducted by LaSalle Network, a staffing and recruiting firm, found:
70 percent of respondents plan to phase employees back into the office
77 percent plan to use a hybrid model that brings employees back to the office parttime while working from home the rest of the week
A majority do not plan to mandate employee vaccinations
What isn’t clear is whether the hybrid model will bring employees back only one or two days per week, or more often than that. Nor whether employees will be brought into the office on separate days to tamp down any spread of COVID-19 or on the same days i
