WeWork CEO Sandeep Mathrani is of the opinion that people who are more comfortable working from home are the “least engaged”. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything festival last week, he added that the “overly engaged” want to go to the office. Mathrani said, “No one is saying they don't want to go to work. They are saying 'I wanna go to work two or three days a week' and I'd like to work from home a day a week.”
He added, “It's also pretty obvious that those who are overly engaged with the company want to go to the office two-thirds of the time at least. Those who are least engaged are very comfortable working from home.”
Mathrani recently filled the executive position in the co-working startup. Its business model relies primarily on filling office space. He said that despite the current surge in remote work pattern, the office is an important part of building company culture, collaborating, and innovating. He suggested that the reason more companies had announced plans to bring employees back to the office, or establish a “hybrid” work model combining in-office and remote work, was because of the “Zoom fatigue” executives have experienced during the remote-work era.
