If companies want happy workers, they need to give them choices.

That's the theme from a Cushman & Wakefield and CoreNet Global survey of 339 people from over a dozen countries.

While flexibility is important, respondents indicated that 100 percent remote work is not ideal for most employees. Pre-pandemic, 59% of respondents described their company's approach to work as office first. Post-pandemic, that number dropped to 10% as 58% of respondents indicated that they wanted to go to an office-first hybrid. After the pandemic, only 18% of respondents said that "mostly working in company offices" described their approach.

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Leslie Shaver

Les Shaver has been covering commercial and residential real estate for almost 20 years. His work has appeared in Multifamily Executive, Builder, units, Arlington Magazine in addition to GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum.