Majority of Remote Workers Would Quit If Forced to Return to Office: Study [Video]

A majority of remote workers would quit their jobs if forced to return to the office, according to a new study.

In FlexJobs’ recent report, 57 percent of remote workers surveyed said they would “absolutely” look for a new job if they were not allowed to continue working remotely. And 35 percent said they actually know someone who has quit or is planning to quit because their company required them to return to the office.

“Obviously, an employer has the right to call employees back to the office from remote or hybrid positions at any time, but for many who have had these jobs since the early days of the pandemic, working from home during all or part of the week has become a way of life, and they’ve scheduled virtually all other priorities around it,” Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor at the University of Tennessee at Martin, told Newsweek.