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Hybrid Schedules May Be A Port in an Economic Storm

UPDATED ON
March 29, 2023
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Workspace innovators IWG have released survey data that paints a fairly bleak picture about the near term prospects for the economy at large, with 91% of surveyed CFOs predicting economic downturn is within our sights. 

Perhaps even more telling, 98% of that same population of CFOs is planning on taking action to cut costs at their company if they haven’t yet begun doing so already, two-thirds of which plan to reduce their facility expenditures by at least 10%, and more than 8 out of 10 of which believe that hybrid work may be a viable means for achieving this result. 

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