If you take an ’80s Canadian rock band’s word for it, “Everybody’s working for the weekend.” Between cowbell intonations, Loverboy croons a truism of the modern-day workforce: People are just trying to get through the week to enjoy their typically two-day dose of freedom. But the workweek has shifted in the decades since, and our dearly beloved weekends are changing—at least, for hybrid workers.
They are working less during the week and more on weekends, according to July data from Work From Home Research. It finds that 10% of hybrid workers aren’t working on a given weekday, which partly explains why 56% of them are working a full day any given Saturday. Some are in the office (24%), while others are working remotely (32%). Those numbers dwindle a bit on Sunday to 18% and 29%, respectively. “Hybrid WFH has blurred the weekday/weekend boundary,” Stanford professor of economics Nick Bloom, one of the researchers at WFH, tweeted. It sounds like work is taking over our lives, but Bloom points out that it could be a sign of greater autonomy as workers make their own schedule.
