With high-profile return-to-office (RTO) pushes in both the private sector and federal government, some leaders critical of hybrid and remote work are again pushing the narrative that flexibility creates a trade-off between employee wellbeing and organizational productivity.
“It’s a funny narrative that productivity and wellbeing are at loggerheads,” says Ellen Kossek, a professor emerita of management at Purdue Business who has studied flexible work and telework for over two decades. Her early research on remote work found that access to remote work was also associated with both higher performance and improved work-life balance, trust, and retention. (These findings have been confirmed again and again in recent years.)
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