6 May 2025, 08:05

By Dominic Dugan

The ‘Return to Office’ conversation is everywhere right now.

Whether you've been back ‘in’ for five years already or have now adopted a hybrid approach, it’s still commonplace for us to think about how the office used to be before the pandemic.

But let's think really hard about that pre-pandemic office for a moment. Was it really the buzzing hub of collaboration and productivity we often hear about from employers? Our data tells a different story. On average, more than 40% of office desks were empty on any given day. That doesn’t exactly scream thriving, does it?

The reality is, long before 2020, many people had already found ways........

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