Since March 2022, companies are no longer obligated to offer their employees the option of working from home. However, a return to a 100% office-based work environment is no longer conceivable for many employees. Yet some companies do not see working from home as a sustainable long-term model. The reasons are varied: for example, a lack of trust within the team. Companies need to extend a significant degree of trust to their employees, because no manager can oversee their team's work in their own homes.

Employees no longer want to give up working from home. According to a Statista survey, around 70 percent of respondents in Germany support a legal right to work from home. What happens, however, if companies insist that their teams must now be physically present on-site again? The ifo Institute asked a similar question and found that 26 percent of the employees surveyed would leave their company if teams were only allowed to work in person.

According to the keynote speaker and management consultant Dr. Stephan Meyer, this is a clear wake-up call for all companies that are still resisting the changes in working life.