Study: 42% of Workers Would Reject Job Offer With No Hybrid Work

AI Up, Productivity Down

The study also discovered that AI tools are now used regularly by 39% of respondents, which shows that the use of chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini aren’t specifically limited to remote AI jobs and entry-level AI jobs. 57% of global respondents said that they were ready to retrain into new roles if required, recognizing that artificial intelligence will continue to be a disruptive force in the workplace.

The study was published just a few days before the UK’s Office of National Statistics (ONS) released its own study on the labor market’s productivity (Regional and subregional labour productivity, UK: 2022), however.

A mixed set of data showed that, while some parts of the country had shown improved productivity, London’s fell by 2.7% between 2019 and 2022. The shadow of that figure is cast upon a backdrop of numbers showing 60% of all London workers either work on a hybrid model or entirely from home.

A further questionnaire carried out by the ONS earlier this year revealed that 29% of London businesses intended to embed greater levels of working from home, compared to a figure of 44% to the same question in 2022. This perhaps shows that some London businesses have identified their own inverse correlation between remote working and productivity levels.