Which cohort showed up to the office most often despite a flexible work-from-home policy?

Name: Think young workers just want remote jobs? #Careers
Uploaded: 2025-03-27T15:00:12+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Tom Burton et al.) about recruitment challenges as older workers retire and younger workers enter the…

Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

Think young workers just want remote jobs? #Careers

27 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Tom Burton et al.) about recruitment challenges as older workers retire and younger workers enter the industry. Speakers argue that workplace culture is as important as technology and data; an anecdote notes that despite a flexible work-from-home policy, the under-30 cohort was the largest group to come into the office.

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I think that also ties and again interested in your take. Brendan is right a younger workforce coming in as well. Right? This is I mean people are the old old timers or so to speak are retiring. There's new people coming in. And one of the things that Dirk is saying is it's been hard to find those people that want to come into the industry. So got to adjust accordingly. Yeah.
And culture matters to those people as much as they want to, you know, leverage technology and look at the numbers and bring everything down to data analysis. They want to show up to a place that they enjoy where they enjoy being with people that they enjoy. You know, one of the biggest things I heard was from a very large manufacturer who had a policy for freedom to work from home if you wanted to. And the number one cohort of individual that showed up to the office every day was their under 30s.