Employees see flexible workplaces as an equivalent benefit to an 8% raise, WSJ reported.
In some cases, employer pressure to return to in-person work results in employee efforts to unionize or strike over the rollback in benefits, according to Entrepreneur magazine.
Insider previously reported work stoppages seen have the highest level of public support since 1965.
Some employees, like an Arizona administrator making six figures, have quit altogether when called back to the office, Insider previously reported.
Research by Prithwiraj Choudhury, an associate professor at the Harvard Business School and remote work expert, found that employees who worked from home 75% of the time were the most productive, Insider previously reported.
Persons:
Nicholas Bloom, Prithwiraj Choudhury
Organizations:
Service, Disney, JPMorgan, Guardian, Labor Department, Actors Guilds, Employers, Street, Workers, Stanford, Harvard Business School
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, Arizona