{"id":3172,"date":"2022-12-13T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.com\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2023-02-27T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:23:52","slug":"why-your-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-and-how-to-reject-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.com\/blog\/why-your-boss-wants-you-back-in-the-office-and-how-to-reject-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your boss wants you back in the office and how to reject them gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"

When maverick entrepreneur Elon Musk scrapped remote working for Twitter and called 40-hour work weeks \u2018for the weak hearted\u2019, he reopened the debate on whether a return-to-office push will prevail in the post-pandemic era. Companies like <\/span>Goldman Sachs<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Morgan Stanley<\/span><\/a> quickly jumped on this bandwagon, asking employees to return to the office full time. But not everyone is happy. Many employees and jobseekers are not a fan of this mandate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll bring some clarity on whether the return to the office is truly an emerging trend, explain why your boss wants you back in the office, and list out 5 ways you can say no to coming back to the office – without burning bridges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Remote working still reigns<\/h2>\n

Our job market data spots that since the outbreak of the pandemic, the proportion of fully remote roles rose sharply, from 4.2% in January 2020 to a peak of 17.1% in April 2022. However, the tables may be turning on remote work. Since April, the proportion of job vacancies specifying remote working has reduced gradually to a 10-month low of 13.8% in November 2022, despite still dominating advertised vacancies chart.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, during this period, as more employers are urging employees to return to the office, the proportion of job vacancies specifying roles are \u2018office-based\u2019 has started creeping back up, from 3.5% in April 2022 to a 19-month high of 4.2% in November 2022. Before April, the proportion of vacancies labeled \u2018office-based\u2019 were under 4% most of the time. Now with Elon and co. adopting a hardline approach to the return to the office, the number is rising.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hybrid advertised roles remained flat throughout the pandemic, with less than 1% of postings advertising hybrid roles between January 2020 and September 2021. Since October 2021, with the rapid rise of the Delta variant, we\u2019ve recorded a shift, with advertised roles climbing from 1.2% to 3.7% in November 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n