{"id":2529,"date":"2020-12-15T02:38:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T02:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=2529"},"modified":"2024-01-13T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T10:22:46","slug":"employers-want-workers-to-decide-their-return-to-workplaces-kpmg-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/employers-want-workers-to-decide-their-return-to-workplaces-kpmg-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers Want Workers to Decide Return to Offices, KPMG Survey Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
A huge number of US companies and employers are deferring return-to-office plans, a recent survey by global audit firm KPMG reported.<\/p>\n
The survey released on Monday (December 14) entitled Return to the Workplace<\/a> interviewed 100 employers in the United States who represent over 5 million employees as they address critical return-to-work questions.<\/p>\n While many American employers are eager to go back to office work, some 82 percent of employers are wary of welcoming back workers as they place return-to-office plans on hold. The study also shows that many employers are waiting for clarity on vaccines and local regulations to be imposed by authorities.<\/p>\n The study also disclosed that only 27 percent of employers plan to open their physical locations and welcome back their employees. Some have also pushed back plans of reopening workplaces to later in 2021 while other employers have permanently not required their employees to return to the office.<\/p>\n Survey results also indicated that companies and organizations are letting employees decide when they feel safe and comfortable returning to the office, with only 18 percent mandating that employees return to the office by a certain date, at this time.<\/p>\n The survey conducted by KPMG LLP in September covered U.S. senior executives from 100 companies with annual revenue of at least $1 billion and governmental organizations with an aggregate headcount of approximately 5 million employees. The research also covered companies from six industries: consumer markets\/retail, government, life sciences, financial services, industrial manufacturing, and technology, media and telecommunications.<\/p>\n “While it seems that employees are successfully working outside their traditional offices, employers have new questions about how to measure productivity in a virtual world,” Atif Zaim, KPMG Advisory principal and Restarting America leader said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n “Organizations are working on new measures to avoid exposing employees to undue health risks through widespread return-to-office initiatives ahead of available vaccines,” Zaim said.<\/p>\n\n