Bosses don’t follow their own advice in returning to the office


A man uses a laptop in San Francisco, California, US. Executives from Bank of America Corp to Alphabet Inc’s Google are prodding their workers to return in part to boost in-person collaboration, but bosses themselves are somewhat exempt. — Bloomberg

Bosses are hellbent on getting their staff back into the office. It’s just that the rules don’t necessarily apply to them.

While 35% of non-executive employees are in the office five days a week, just 19% of executives can say the same, according to a survey by Future Forum, a research consortium backed by messaging channel Slack.

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