By now, the narrative of employees vs. management when it comes to work flexibility is well-established in the HR industry. Neither side is a monolith, but research from the past year indicates lines have been drawn.

Future Forum's findings echo those of other firms. In April, Prudential and Morning Consult found that 68% of U.S workers preferred a hybrid workplace model of post-pandemic work, while 87% said they wanted to continue to work remotely at least one day per week.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, 67% of supervisors in a Society for Human Resource Management survey said they considered remote workers more replaceable than on-site counterparts. Sixty-two percent said they believed full-time work was detrimental to employees' career objectives and 72% preferred to have all subordinates working in an office.