Of home work, hybrid or traditional office hours, the last is the worst of all worlds. Here’s why | Opinion

Boeing and UPS, among other organizations, recently demanded that their staff return to the office for the full Monday-Friday, 9-to-5 schedule. Yet such top-down, full-time in the office mandates come in the face of definitive proof that the traditional office presence is the worst of all worlds. It’s based on a meta-analysis paper by researchers from Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México on productivity in hybrid, remote and in-office settings.