Work Environment Preferences: WDC Regional Insurance Community
Last week we conducted a direct email campaign to 3,267 insurance professionals located in the WDC region to get their opinion on their work environment preferences.
We threw in a new wrinkle:? We included the option of working a 38 hour four-day work week with either Friday or Monday being a day off. ?This is becoming a trend with our European-based colleagues and it is working quite well – picking up steam.?
The way it works is that workers work 38 hours per week either Monday – Thursday and on alternating weeks Tuesday – Friday.? This way, the office is covered five days per week with 50% of the staff on Monday and Friday.? Each worker would get a three-day weekend having either Friday or Monday off EVERY week.? ?
The 3,067 insurance professionals located in the Mid-Atlantic region were asked the question, “What workplace environment do you prefer?”? They were given five choices: 1) Fully Remote, 2) Classic 2/3 Hybrid, 3) Classic 3/2 Hybrid, 4) Classic Hybrid 4/1, and 5) Four-Day work week.
We received 525 responses which would make this statistically relevant for the WDC regional insurance community.? Based on other data we track with the candidates; the response is not what I expected with the Four-Day work week prevailing over both hybrid options.? Here are the results:
There was some very interesting feedback on tweaking the 4-day work week, but that is not covered in this summary post. For the full report, you can contact me directly for the complete report.
Work Environment Preferences:
Fully Remote 39.00%
Hybrid 2/3 20.00%
Hybrid 3/2 13.00%
Hybrid 4/1 6.00%
4-day Work Week 22.00%
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6 个月Hi Rob. For the hybird, is your first number the days in the office or days remote? Our business unit is 3/2 - 3 days in office, 2 days remote. (Tues-Thurs; M/F). We do have other BUs that are fully in office. I’m surprised with the results for the 4 day work week too. While promising initially, my concern would be how sustainable is it. Seems like it would interfere with other life activities typically done in the evening. Thanks for sharing.