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The optimal work-from-home schedule

The optimal work-from-home schedule

- [Interviewer] I'd love your view while you mentioned it. I guess choice matters and people have different perspectives. Is there an optimal with regard to the days, one day, two days, consecutive, non-consecutive? - [Interviewee] It's a great question. The typical person may get to work in the office Monday, Wednesday, Friday, be at home Tuesday, Thursday which for many people is the best of both worlds. You save a couple of days on commute, a bit less hustle, you get peace and quiet but you see your colleagues throughout five days a week. So I'll give you three broad tips and then I'll drill into the one that you want to hear most about. So the three broad types I've been telling firms repeating, I think it's becoming like a consensus. Every firm I talked to kind of affirms the same view. So the first is part-time. I have lots of survey data, I won't go through it in details but basically most people want to work…

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