Five-day office week will become the norm again

> one of the benefits of being in the office is having interactions with other people, coming up with new ideas and sharing information

That turns out to not be as significant as managers and extroverts think[1]. People have a variety of work styles, and knowledge workers in particular need uninterrupted time for deep work[2].

1. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/325959

2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001391650203400...

5 day week as the return to normal? Perhaps for a measurable number but plenty of others don't agree.

I know many people who are already on 4 day weeks. Some are shifting to 6 just over half days. Some are wanting full remote. Others want partial remote so they can see their children grow up or operate homeschooling AND still want to go into an office. No pay cut for any of this either. They don't even consider it a perk.

A lot of these articles about resuming old hours of work are really just aspirations of governments, lobby groups and others with already vested interests, even property developers/large office building owners are chiming in.

Welcome to the Great Reset.