Despite more U.S. companies issuing return-to-office mandates over the past year, the on-site rate has not increased significantly, and the divide between policy and practice persists even as the job market cools, according to newly released data from the Flex Index.
The report shows that 66 percent of U.S. companies continued to offer location flexibility to employees in the current quarter, while only one-third required staff to work full-time on-site.
That percentage represents a 2 percent decline from one year ago, when 68 percent of businesses offered flexible work locations. Still, the report shows that 5 percent of American companies are still more flexible than they were in 2023….