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When Amazon CEO Andy Jassy issued a memo this September mandating corporate employees’ full-time return to the office effective next January, many staffers were far from pleased. However, it’s likely that at least some of the company’s younger professionals are quietly celebrating the change.
In a recent survey of 1,000 US workers by the consulting firm Big Chalk, almost half of Gen Z respondents expressed a preference for working in an office, compared with around 30% of millennials and approximately 16% of Gen X and Baby Boomers. Another report, from the workplace consultancy Seramount, revealed that only 11% of Gen Z workers would rather work fully remotely than in an office some or all of the time, compared with more than one-third of their older peers.
