Bevi
The report found increases in office attendance for every day of the work week in the first half of 2024 compared to last year. Fridays remain the least popular, while the middle three days are the most popular.
Bevi’s data suggests that Tuesday is the most common day of the week for workers to come in.
Bevi
In 2019, before the pandemic spurred remote and later hybrid work on a mass scale, Bevi saw 87% of office attendance occur in the standard 9-to-5 work hours, while 13% registered outside the traditional workday, or sometime between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m.. This year so far, 9-to-5 attendance has dropped to 80%, while off-peak attendance rose to 20%.
Bevi
Looking at specific cities, Los Angeles is leading the charge in the return to the office, according to Bevi’s data. One reason, of course, is California’s hybrid work policy requiring state employees to come into the office two days a week at minimum.
Though office attendance is increasing, we may still be a ways from a full return to 5 days in the office. A recent report from UK-based think tank Centre for Cities found that in Paris, the financial center leading the way in RTO, workers are averaging 3.5 days a week in the office.
Some companies, in the meantime, are doubling down on their RTO policies. Dell, for example, told staff earlier this year that workers who choose to stay remote wouldn’t be eligible for promotions.
Meanwhile, some workers trying to evade return-to-office mandates are turning to tactics like the “hushed hybrid” work schedule to capitalize on flexibility from middle managers who are willing to quietly let their reports continue working remotely in spite of company-wide directives.