Turns out, not everyone is excited about working from home. And those least excited? They tend to be the youngest members of the workforce, those in Generation Z.
Apartment List in December of last year surveyed workers about their feelings on remote work. And the survey found that older workers were much more excited about remote work than were younger ones.
According to the survey, 36% of workers 25 or younger said that remote work is “extremely” desirable, while 27% described it as “very” desirable. The survey found that 28% found it as “somewhat” desirable, while 9% said it was either “not so” or “not at all” desirable.
Among Boomers, though, 62% said that working from home is “extremely desirable,” while 54% of workers from Generation X agreed. A total of 51% of Millennial workers said the same thing.
What is clear, though, is that remote work remains common as the country continues to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Apartment List, 51% of workers were working from home at least 50% in April of 2021. By December of last year, that number fell to 44%, still a good number of workers.
And many of those people still working from home expect to be logging plenty of work hours remotely in the future. Eight in 10 people surveyed who do work from home told Apartment List in December of last year that their remote work arrangements would continue indefinitely.
There are nuances here, though. A total of 33% of respondents said they expected to work fully remote for the indefinite future, while 45% said they expected a hybrid arrangement in which they log some work hours at home and some at the office. Only 10% said they expected to work completely on-site in the near future.
