The number of Bay Area employees who work from home full-time post-pandemic has dropped considerably, while so-called hybrid schedules that combine work-from-home with in-office work has risen, according to a survey sponsored by the business promotion group Bay Area Council and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Just 11% of employers surveyed reported full-time employees working from home in February, down from 32% in October 2021.
The survey showed that 84% of businesses had switched to attendance policies that require employees to come to work.
The Return to Office Survey also examined so-called hybrid employment, where an employee shares their time in the office and at home. According to the survey, in October 2021, 44% of workers were on hybrid schedules, but by February of this year, that number had risen to 63%. Most workers come into the office Tuesdays through Thursdays.
“While hybrid work has become the new norm, there continues to be a shift back to in-person work,” Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.
Both the Bay Area Council, a business-sponsored public policy organization, and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which regulates transportation across the region’s nine counties, have a stake in knowing how many workers are commuting on a daily basis.
According to the council, traffic across some Bay Area bridges has returned or exceeded pre-pandemic levels.
“Hybrid work … has become a dominant model in the post-pandemic world,” said the Bay Area Council, “but the average number of days workers are doing their work from home has decreased from almost three per week in 2021 to two in 2025, with many more working at home just one day a week.”
The exact number of employers surveyed was not released by the council, which said it numbered in the hundreds. The survey itself was carried out by Oakland public opinion research firm EMC Research, with an analysis of the data by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute think tank. — Bay City News
“The survey showed that 84% of businesses had switched to attendance policies that require employees to come to work.” Not Palo Alto city govt, which continues with a work-from-home policy. When are they going to get with the times!
Apparently the Palo Alto police are not much better about showing up to work after reading about how the mother carrying her baby was violently assaulted Thursday afternoon behind Chase Bank at the 300 block of Hamilton, which is literally a stone’s throw from the police station, and the assailant got away. Where were the keystone cops?
It’s times like these I wish someone like Donald J. Trump was in charge of the City. He would demand all city workers show up to work or lose their jobs. He wouldn’t put up with taxpayer dollars going to apathetic “work from home” bureaucrats or a mother getting mugged outside the police building while holding her baby, with the bandit getting away.
Trump? All I remember about him was that he was president when were forced to go into the lockdown. Remember when all businesses closed and people lost their jobs?
Trump didn’t force anyone to go into lockdown or close any businesses. He pushed for the states to open back up as early as Easter of 2020, but the majority of states, especially the dark blue states, remained closed.
Trump’s problem was he listened to the wrong people (Fauci, Birx) and should never have signed the CARES Act into law, which incentivized states to lockdown and stay locked down. The whole “two weeks to slow the spread” was a ruse. Thank Florida for opening back up in September of 2020 or we might still be living under lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, mask mandates and vaccines, although medical facilities in most bay area counties continue to have standing mask orders currently in place…you would think a study of bay area hospital “cases”, hospitalizations and deaths from Nov-March compared to the rest of the counties and states with no medical mask orders would have been conducted by now to show how useless masks are.
Talk about re-writing history. Next thing you’re going to tell us was that Biden was president during the lockdown. You’re a joke!