As employers have called their employees back to the workplace, the question of the future of remote work has become a hot issue.
In a new study in which 25 countries including Sweden are included, a clear majority state that they want to continue working from home in the future.
- We have gotten used to it.
Now that we have digital meetings instead of regular ones, it's hard to sit in an office and make it work.
Then many people want to sit at home.
It seems to be permanent, says Lena Lid Falkman, Researcher in working life science at the School of Economics and Karlstad University, in SVT's Morgonstudion.
But the issue has divided employers, managers and employees, she believes.
- I have done a study in Sweden that shows the same thing.
Managers and employers want people back and employees want to work from home, she says.
"They deliver from home"
Some of the points discussed are whether productivity, efficiency and organizational culture are affected.
- And that's the big myth we've busted, people work even when they're not controlled.
They deliver from home, the vast majority do, says Lena Lid Falkman.
At the same time, the trend is towards more employers offering the opportunity to work from home and the workplaces of the future being adapted to just that.
- We are different, we live differently and have different conditions for working at home.
We are in different phases of life.
For parents and parents of young children who work from home, it makes things a lot easier to put together the puzzle of life.
There can be different phases in life when it is suitable to work from home, says Lena Lid Falkman.