返岗上班，同事最怕同事
随着封城管制日渐放宽，返岗上班也成为了近在眼前的事情，据《财富》独家发布的最新调查显示，在回办公室上班的问题上，美国白领最担心就是同事会给自己带来风险。
管控员工行为是企业面临的棘手问题，尤其是下班后的时间。此外，员工可能还会担心同事是否愿意遵守社交疏离的相关规定，或是在感觉不适时留在家中。
“如果你的同事傻乎乎地在晚上去参加地下聚会，那就太吓人了。” 办公空间运营商Industrious的首席执行官詹米•霍达里说。该公司与民调及数据公司Elucd合作开展了本次调查。
调查中，约37％的上班族表示，在考虑回办公室上班这一问题时，最担心的就是“办公室其他同事的行为会给自己带来风险。”相比之下，只有19％的受访者将雇主预防举措过于宽松列为首选。11％的受访者最担心新的健康管制措施会影响工作效率，另有8％的受访者最为担心则是通勤安全问题。
但仍有26％的受访者表示对返回办公室上班毫不担心，人数位列调查第二位。
本次调查的结果为讨论疫情期间返岗办公问题提供了新的思路。不难理解，此前的讨论多是围绕雇主及办公楼运营商所能控制的因素，比如加强清洁卫生、楼宇通风以及对办公室进行重新设计以保持员工间距离等等。
霍达里表示：“能否取得良好效果一方面取决于人员密度，但更多的还是取决于大家的行为习惯以及是否能够切实遵守各项规定。”
调查发现，尽管员工心怀顾虑，但多数人依然愿意回办公室工作。60％的受访者表示，如果条件允许，他们可能或很可能选择回到办公室。
另外，调查还发现，在不同情况下员工的态度确有差异。其中差别最大之处在于否需要乘坐公共交通通勤，与不需要乘坐公共交通的受访者相比，需要乘坐公共交通工具上下班的受访者对回办公室工作明显更为抵触，他们中只有34%的人表示自己“很愿意”在办公室重新开放时回去上班，而在那些不需要乘坐公共交通工具的受访者中，这一数字为48％。
家中有孩子的上班族回办公室上班的意愿比没有孩子的上班族略高：48％的已为人父母的受访者表示，当办公室重新开放时，他们“很有可能”会回去上班，而在没有孩子的受访者中这一数字为45％。
霍达里表示，从调查结果可以明显看出，员工面临的情况各不相同，因而需要雇主更为灵活处理返岗办公问题。“我真心希望多数美国企业能把选择权交给员工，”他说，“有的员工住的地方可能离办公室只有两个街区，而且毫无顾虑，但也可能有员工对回办公室工作充满了焦虑、恐惧，这时候如果你强迫他们回到办公室，他们可能很难做好自己的工作。”
此次调查是数据收集项目——Workstat的处女秀。这项由Industrious和Elucd合作开展的调查将会每周发布一次，通过提出不同问题来了解员工对工作场所的看法。
本次调查共访问了745名疫情爆发前在办公室工作的美国人，对包括年龄和种族等人口统计因素进行了加权处理。（财富中文网）
译者：冯丰
审校：夏林
随着封城管制日渐放宽，返岗上班也成为了近在眼前的事情，据《财富》独家发布的最新调查显示，在回办公室上班的问题上，美国白领最担心就是同事会给自己带来风险。
管控员工行为是企业面临的棘手问题，尤其是下班后的时间。此外，员工可能还会担心同事是否愿意遵守社交疏离的相关规定，或是在感觉不适时留在家中。
“如果你的同事傻乎乎地在晚上去参加地下聚会，那就太吓人了。” 办公空间运营商Industrious的首席执行官詹米•霍达里说。该公司与民调及数据公司Elucd合作开展了本次调查。
调查中，约37％的上班族表示，在考虑回办公室上班这一问题时，最担心的就是“办公室其他同事的行为会给自己带来风险。”相比之下，只有19％的受访者将雇主预防举措过于宽松列为首选。11％的受访者最担心新的健康管制措施会影响工作效率，另有8％的受访者最为担心则是通勤安全问题。
但仍有26％的受访者表示对返回办公室上班毫不担心，人数位列调查第二位。
本次调查的结果为讨论疫情期间返岗办公问题提供了新的思路。不难理解，此前的讨论多是围绕雇主及办公楼运营商所能控制的因素，比如加强清洁卫生、楼宇通风以及对办公室进行重新设计以保持员工间距离等等。
霍达里表示：“能否取得良好效果一方面取决于人员密度，但更多的还是取决于大家的行为习惯以及是否能够切实遵守各项规定。”
调查发现，尽管员工心怀顾虑，但多数人依然愿意回办公室工作。60％的受访者表示，如果条件允许，他们可能或很可能选择回到办公室。
另外，调查还发现，在不同情况下员工的态度确有差异。其中差别最大之处在于否需要乘坐公共交通通勤，与不需要乘坐公共交通的受访者相比，需要乘坐公共交通工具上下班的受访者对回办公室工作明显更为抵触，他们中只有34%的人表示自己“很愿意”在办公室重新开放时回去上班，而在那些不需要乘坐公共交通工具的受访者中，这一数字为48％。
家中有孩子的上班族回办公室上班的意愿比没有孩子的上班族略高：48％的已为人父母的受访者表示，当办公室重新开放时，他们“很有可能”会回去上班，而在没有孩子的受访者中这一数字为45％。
霍达里表示，从调查结果可以明显看出，员工面临的情况各不相同，因而需要雇主更为灵活处理返岗办公问题。“我真心希望多数美国企业能把选择权交给员工，”他说，“有的员工住的地方可能离办公室只有两个街区，而且毫无顾虑，但也可能有员工对回办公室工作充满了焦虑、恐惧，这时候如果你强迫他们回到办公室，他们可能很难做好自己的工作。”
此次调查是数据收集项目——Workstat的处女秀。这项由Industrious和Elucd合作开展的调查将会每周发布一次，通过提出不同问题来了解员工对工作场所的看法。
本次调查共访问了745名疫情爆发前在办公室工作的美国人，对包括年龄和种族等人口统计因素进行了加权处理。（财富中文网）
译者：冯丰
审校：夏林
As coronavirus lockdowns begin to ease, the biggest fear among white-collar workers in the U.S. about returning to the office is their coworkers’ behavior, according to a new survey shared exclusively with Fortune.
Controlling employees’ behavior—including when they’re not in the office at all—is a thorny challenge. Workers may also be concerned about one another’s willingness to keep physical distance in the office, or to stay home if they feel sick.
“If your colleague is behaving in way that’s silly, they’re going to underground parties at night, that’s scary,” says Jamie Hodari, CEO of Industrious, an office space operator, which conducted the survey in partnership with the polling and data company Elucd.
Approximately 37% of office-going adults said that, when thinking about returning to the office, they are most concerned that “others in my office will behave in a way that puts me in danger.” By contrast, just 19% of respondents cited lax measures by their employer as their biggest concern about returning. Eleven percent were most worried about productivity under new health restrictions, and 8% were most concerned about the safety of their commute.
But a little more than a fourth of survey respondents (26%)—the second-largest group of respondents—said they had no concerns at all about returning to the office.
The results cast new light on the discourse around returning to the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic. Much of that has understandably focused on elements that employers and building operators can control, such as enhanced cleaning protocols, building ventilation, and redesigning offices to keep distance between workers.
“Some of this depends on density," says Hodari, “But a lot of it depends on the way people behave and comply with protocols or not.”
Despite that anxiety, the survey found most workers are amenable to getting back to the office. Sixty percent of respondents said they were likely or very likely to return to the office when they had the option to do so.
The survey did find deviations between office workers in different circumstances. Above all, those who commute using public transit are substantially more hesitant to return to work than those who do not. Only 34% of public transit commuters said
they were “very likely” to return to work when offices reopen, compared with 48% of non-transit commuters.
Office workers with kids at home were slightly more likely to want to get back to the office than those without kids: 48% of parents said they were “very likely” to return when offices reopened, compared with 45% of those without kids.
Hodari says the results highlight the diverse situations faced by workers as well as the need for flexibility from employers. “I really hope that most American businesses approach this as a question of employee choice,” he says. “There are going to be employees who live two blocks from the office and have no concerns, and there will be employees who can barely get their work done if you force them to come into the office, because they’re going to be riddled with anxiety and fear.”
The survey is the inaugural edition of a new data-gathering project called Workstat. The collaboration between Industrious and Elucd will conduct weekly surveys with an evolving set of questions about workers’ attitudes toward their workplace.
The current survey covers responses from 745 U.S. adults who worked in offices prior to the coronavirus crisis, weighted by demographic factors including age and race.
