A randomized trial involving 1,612 software engineers, marketing and finance professionals showed a shift in time management for hybrid workers.
In the debate over the future of work, the argument for hybrid home-office work arrangements just received another case exhibit.
Meanwhile, job performance did not suffer and self-assessed worker productivity edged up — leading management at Trip.com to extend the hybrid work approach to all its staffers after the six-month experiment ended earlier this year. “Hybrid work didn’t impact job performance reviews or promotions. In fact, the hybrid staffers produced 8% more lines of code and their self-assessed productivity edged up 1.8%.”
Trip.com did not immediately respond to a request for comment. When Trip.com announced the new policy in February, James Liang, the company’s executive chairman, told Reuters, “It is a good thing to work in a hybrid way and Chinese companies should try it. We hope more enterprises will join us in adopting this policy which is good for employees, companies and also society.”
Read also: ‘Offices are toast’: CEO of real estate investment platform Fundrise is betting workers won’t return to city centers Others say hybrid work is a fallacy. Given a taste of greater freedom, one might easily conclude that office work had changed, or that it was sure to do so. But if you’d been chained to the office before the pandemic, you’re no less captive to it now—even though, in certain comfy moments, you could let yourself forget it. You were at home, but still, you were in the office. For you are an office worker, and the office is your home.
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