'The office increasingly fails to deliver this benefit': Most in-office workers now describe their desk jobs as ‘remote' despite bosses promising to boost in-person teams

• Report finds many in-person office workers are still spending too much time on virtual meetings
• Workers are required in the office 3.74 days on average, but they attend just 2.59 days
• Defining a clear purpose to maximize in-person days could improve productivity

After the pandemic drove most workers home, recent years have seen many businesses go all-in on renewed office-working mandates, with managers and business leaders citing higher levels of productivity from in-person working.

But years later, it seems those benefits are yet to be realized, and almost half (49%) of employees who commute to an office don't even have fully in-person meetings still.

The data, provided through a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, found that many workers actually end up spending their office days either working independently or collaborating with colleagues through online platforms – much the same as had they just stayed at home.

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