Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Houston, we have a problem
Future of Work | Organization
July 26, 2021 – Two new McKinsey surveys reveal a stark contrast. More than three-quarters of C-suite executives report that they expect the typical “core” employee to be back in the office three or more days a week. But about the same proportion of employees would like to work mostly from home. Hybrid work is shaping up as a contest of wills.
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To read the article, see “It’s time for leaders to get real about hybrid,” July 9, 2021.
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Two-panel stacked-column comparison chart.
Layout / body structure
The chart is split into two side-by-side panels. Read the left panel first for what C-suite respondents say about days per week in the office before and after the pandemic, then move to the right panel for the employee view of working-model mix before and after the pandemic.
What is being compared
The left panel compares prepandemic and postpandemic expectations for the share of workdays in the office among C-suite respondents. The right panel compares employees’ prepandemic and desired postpandemic working models across fully remote, hybrid, and fully on-site arrangements.
Measurement system
Both panels use stacked percent columns. The left panel uses four office-frequency bands of 1 day or less, 2 days, 3 days, and more than 4 days per week, while the right panel uses three working-model categories: fully remote, hybrid, and fully on site.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each panel shows two vertical stacks labeled prepandemic and postpandemic. The left side has a legend between the columns that decodes the four shades for days in office, and the right side places the postpandemic labels beside the stack so the shift from fully on-site toward hybrid and remote can be read directly.
Main takeaway from the visual
Executives still expect the office to remain the main work location, but both panels show a clear shift away from the prepandemic all-office model. The left chart still has a majority in the more-than-four-days segment after the pandemic, while the right chart shows employees preferring a much larger hybrid and remote mix than before.
Key standout values or extremes
In the C-suite panel, the more-than-four-days share drops from 92 percent prepandemic to 52 percent postpandemic, while the three-days segment rises to 36 percent and the 1 day or less segment reaches 12 percent. In the employee panel, fully on-site falls from 62 percent to 37 percent, hybrid rises from 30 percent to 52 percent, and fully remote rises from 8 percent to 11 percent.
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