More workers are back in the office. Could our WFH days be numbered?

July 9, 2026 — 1:53pm

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We are more than half a decade into the global “work from home” experiment, and two things have become clear. The first is that some element of WFH flexibility will always be a part of how we work, and the second is how much it will constantly be up for debate.

Even though WFH has firmly embedded itself into the fabric of our workforces, there are still subtle but surprising trends emerging in the tug-of-war. I pore over every data set released on how attitudes, and the reality, is shifting, and many of them are moving in one direction right now.

Return-to-office is beginning to pull ahead.

Take data from recruitment specialists Robert Half, who surveyed 500 hiring managers late last year about what they predicted the next 12 months to look like. While three-quarters said they expected to maintain the number of office days........

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