Mixed methodology

Telephone interviews and phone-to-web interviews

Audience profile

  • A sample of board members/senior management who are part of the strategic leadership team or wider management team making decisions surrounding workforce.
  • Companies with more than 1,000 employees and more than 250 million in annual sales volume.

Number of respondents

500

Fieldwork dates

  • June/July 2023
  • Previous studies:
    • Future of Work 2021: April 2021
    • Future of Work 2019: August/September 2019

Country/region organisation headquartered


Decision-making

Job title


Sector

Centralised decision-making



​​​​​​Footnotes

  1. The New World of Work: 2019 report warned of an unprecedented rise in workplace activism, Herbert Smith Freehills (https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/latest-thinking/the-new-world-of-work-report-warns-of-an-unprecedented-rise-in-workplace-activism-v2)
  2. Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout, AP (https://apnews.com/article/amazon-seattle-walkout-ebfade076bd529e39b83e2c9edcea9ae)
  3. Zoom orders workers back to the office, BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66432173)
  4. Millions to benefit from new flexible working measures, gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-to-benefit-from-new-flexible-working-measures)
  5. The right way to monitor your employee productivity, Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-right-way-to-monitor-your-employee-productivity)
  6. The creepy rise of bossware, Wired (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/creepy-rise-bossware)
  7. A WFH employee in Australia is hitting out at her ex-employer after it tracked how much she was typing—and then fired her, Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/wfh-employee-fired-iag-company-keystroke-technology-surveillance-typing-australia-2023-8?r=US&IR=T)
  8. The rise of the worker productivity score, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html)
  9. Actors join writers on strike, bringing Hollywood to a standstill, The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/business/media/sag-aftra-writers-strike.html)
  10. Disney workers walk out over the company’s response to so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, NPR (https://www.npr.org/2022/03/22/1088048998/disney-walkout-dont-say-gay-bill)
  11. Amazon workers press company on climate change response after Pakistan floods, NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/amazon-employees-climate-change-action-pakistan-rcna64896)

Key contacts

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Fatim Jumabhoy

Partner, Head of Employment & Workplace Investigations, Asia, Singapore

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Sian McKinley

Of Counsel (Employed Barrister), London

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Emma Rohsler

Partner, Head of Employment, Pensions and Incentives, EMEA, Paris

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