Bosses say coming into the office improves culture and productivity. A new study proves them wrong

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Bosses, future of work experts have a word of advice: Culture and productivity don’t only happen in the office.

So finds Future Forum’s latest Pulse survey, released Wednesday. A consortium under the Slack umbrella, the Future Forum has continuously run surveys of 10,000 desk workers around the world each quarter since summer 2020, and each installment has shown that flexible work positively impacts productivity, builds worker-boss trust, and reduces employee turnover.