NY Fed Research Finds Dispersed Teams Undercut Employers' Return-to-Office Case

Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that distributed teams and widespread use of digital collaboration platforms are weakening the reasons employers give for requiring staff back in the office. The findings suggest that remote-style work is more common among office-based employees than headline return-to-office mandates imply.

Why it matters: Leaders setting or defending return-to-office policies, and workers negotiating their schedules, should weigh this evidence on how work actually gets done across distributed teams.