{"id":9403,"date":"2025-05-07T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9403"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:03:11","slug":"office-design-isnt-keeping-up-with-post-covid-work-styles-heres-what-workers-really-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/05\/07\/office-design-isnt-keeping-up-with-post-covid-work-styles-heres-what-workers-really-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Office design isn\u2019t keeping up with\u00a0post-COVID\u00a0work styles &#8211; here\u2019s what workers really\u00a0want"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/office-design-isnt-keeping-up-with-post-covid-work-styles-heres-what-workers-really-want-254997\">The Conversation<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flexible work has become the new norm, despite the best efforts of companies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/work\/at-work\/telling-new-figures-reveal-just-how-many-businesses-in-australia-are-forcing-workers-back-into-the-office-fulltime\/news-story\/4933d8011ccd3ca36d882e2688b6454b\">calling workers back to the office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some employers assume that a return to the old ways of working is both possible and desirable. But for many workers, their perception of the office environment has changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00038628.2025.2493819?src=exp-la\">new study<\/a>, only 27% of surveyed office workers now spend more than 30 hours a week at their workplace \u2014 down from 69% before the pandemic. That was typical of a predominantly full-time office-based culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And one in four office workers spends fewer than ten hours a week at the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study draws on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bossasystem.com\/\">Building Occupants Survey System Australia<\/a>&nbsp;(BOSSA), a large database that assesses worker satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality of their office building. It also considers the role of demographic and personal factors in shaping workplace experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand changes in work patterns before and after COVID, we analysed 5,644 surveys pre- and post-COVID. They covered 157 Australian office buildings, mostly in Sydney (81), Melbourne (39) and Brisbane(21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/office-design-isnt-keeping-up-with-post-covid-work-styles-heres-what-workers-really-want-254997\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation Flexible work has become the new norm, despite the best efforts of companies&nbsp;calling workers back to the office. Some employers assume that a return to the old ways of working is both possible and desirable. But for many workers, their perception of the office environment has changed. According to our&nbsp;new study, only 27% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}