Thursday Is the New Monday as Hybrid-Work Patterns Shift
Monday and Friday had been the most common days to work from home, but new data from remote-work guru Nicholas Bloom shows a surprising change in preferences
A person works from home in a cabin in California.
Photographer: Nina Riggio/BloombergHybrid workers are settling into a pattern of staying home twice a week, but it’s not the days you’d expect.
While many companies’ flexible-work plans have sought to get people in the office Tuesday through Thursday, and work from home Monday and Friday, it turns out that workers are staying home more often on Thursday. That’s according to new data from WFH Research, a team of academics including Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom that has compiled data on the actions and attitudes of tens of thousands of American workers since the pandemic began.