Over the last two years, the workforce has witnessed a major increase in working remotely.
However, this is often viewed as an enforced acceleration of a shift that was already underway – driven by the perceived advantages of hybrid working.
Many employees were entirely office-based a few years ago now work remotely at least part-time.
This has brought fundamental changes, not only in the way people work, but also in their personal life. For example, the shift has brought differences in home life, exercise, shopping, food choices, and even personal hygiene habits.
Using responses from 7,985 online respondents from the Kantar Profiles Audience Network across eight global markets (including US, UK, Brazil, Germany, France, China, Singapore and India), this study sets out to explore new trends and the positive and negative aspects of these changes for the employee and company.
It also explores the impact hybrid work has on workers physical and emotional wellbeing, in addition to expectations employees have of their employers.
Explore our findings here on:
Impact of remote working on physical and emotional health
Lifestyle trends for hybrid workers
Benefits of flexibility for the employee and employer
This research was conducted online using 7,985 respondents sourced from the Kantar Profiles Audience Network across 8 global markets: US (998), Brazil (1,000), UK (1,000), Germany (999), China (1,000), India (1,000) and Singapore (989).
All interviews were conducted as online self-completion between January 14-25, 2022 and collected based on controlled quotas evenly distributed between generations and gender by country.
All respondents were reported to be full or part-time employees whose job function could be performed remotely at least part-time.
A total of 1,514 on-site only, 1,899 remote-only and 4,531 hybrid worker responses were collected across a range of industries and job functions.
Gen-Z was identified as ages 18-24, Millennials ages 25-39, Gen-X ages 40-55, and Boomers ages 56-75.
