What Do Surveys Say About How Employees Feel Regarding Returning To The Office?

In today’s East Bay Times a recent poll of Bay Area residents concluded that 20% of those surveyed felt working in the office was ‘very unsafe’ and 33% felt it was ‘somewhat unsafe’ in a poll of 1,000 registered voters for the Bay Area Council.  This means more than half polled  did not feel safe at this point in time going back to the office.  That to me was alarming as it is mid-April, in the United States over 192 million doses have been given, 51 million are fully-vaccinated and I would have thought there would be more optimism. I checked national polls, and back on December 21, 2020, way before millions had gotten their shots, the overall sentiment was quite a bit different. “According to a recent survey of employed Americans commissioned by OfficeSpace Software, 71% of respondents currently working from home are eager to move back to the office once it is safe to do so. Over 70% indicated that they feel more engaged and more productive in office, and 80% indicated that they miss in-person collaboration with their coworkers. The novelty of virtual meeting programs like Zoom…has also worn thin, with 57% indicated that they are tired of meeting through video”.