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Fortune
Chloe Berger

The return-to-office war may finally be reaching a compromise

Two workers shaking hands over a laptop (Credit: VioletaStoimenova — Getty Images)

It seems as if the return-to-office battle has reached a stalemate. For the past couple of years, it’s been a tug-of-war between bosses who want employees back at their desks and workers who would rather be anywhere but.

After a lot of back-and-forth, both camps seem to be inching closer to an agreement. The latest data from WFH Research by Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis shows that employees want to work remotely about 2.7 days a week. That's been the case for much of 2021, swinging upward during spring and early summer of 2022 as new coronavirus variants gripped the nation, before trending back downward in July. 

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