CBRE has been tracking office policies for more than 340 U.S. companies since January 2023. Now, in the middle of 2024, they've pulled together information to show some trends in what is happening within at least their sample, although it's difficult to know the degree to which this represents the country as a whole.

Most organizations at this point expect employees to be in the office from two to four days a week, with 14% running with full-time office attendance and 36% having employees in the office at least three days a week. That's half of all the companies. But then 6% of companies see employees in half the time, 15% have workers at home three days or more a week. Another 28% make it employee choice, meaning companies have office space but no demand for employees to work there, and 1% work fully remote.

For all the talk of in-office, hybrid, or work-from-home, 99% of companies maintain office space for the business and employees. It suggests that the concern of companies dropping all their real estate has been overdrawn. Most companies apparently need space. And yet, only 71% of organizations expect at least some in-office attendance.