Hybrid work is leadership work.

Leadership expectations are the main reason for office attendance for 19% of the participating organisations. Immediate teamwork leads at 34%, with formal meetings and social exchange also playing a role.

The report gives actual remote working of 2.4 days per week compared with 2.2 days formally permitted. The gap is a prompt to discuss what teams need and how policies are interpreted in practice.

A useful conversation starts with the work: which activities benefit from shared presence, how managers and teams make agreements, and which environments support those activities.