An interesting read on hybrid workforces. 📰 It raises the question of whether our Mews customers are capitalising on this recent co-working space demand. 🏩 Any first-hand changes seen at your property? 🤓
Survey of Business Travel Leaders Spotlights Issues Driven by Hybrid Workforces as Corporate Travel’s Return Accelerates; 44 Percent “Don’t Know” How Co-Working Spaces are Contracted.
Published in hospitalitynet.org
Cologne, Germany & Alexandria, VA – HRS, the leading global corporate travel and payment technology platform, and GBTA, the world’s largest business travel association, announced today the results of a comprehensive survey of travel and procurement leaders from Europe and North America. The results from the June survey illuminate the fact that changes in workforce realities meshed with a faster-than-expected return to travel are transforming managed business travel.
According to the research, 54 percent of those surveyed say business travel has rebounded faster than expected, while 77 percent report they are spending more time troubleshooting traveler issues.
Remote Workers, Downsized Urban Office Footprints Reshaping the Workplace Reality
Survey respondents, with 74 percent from the U.S. and Canada, provided insightful metrics behind trends many in Human Resources and Managed Travel departments find themselves currently navigating. Noteworthy highlights:
- Two-thirds (67 percent) believe that once all their offices are open, hybrid work scenarios will dominate. Only nine percent anticipate that all their colleagues will return to the office full time.
- Two in five respondents (40 percent) report that their companies have reduced their office space.
- Nearly two in five respondents (39 percent) say their company is hiring more remote workers than they did prior to the pandemic.
- Almost four of five travel managers responding (79 percent) say remote working policies boost employee morale, while 72 percent believe these policies help with talent recruitment.