Most CEOs expect workers to be back in the office 5 days a week in a few years

Almost eight in 10 CEOs expect all office workers on hybrid schedules will return to working in person five days a week by 2027.

That statistic comes from KPMG’s 2024 CEO Outlook Survey, which asked 400 US CEOs about the key challenges and opportunities driving business growth today.

Seventy-nine percent of U.S. CEOs said they expect a return to working full-time in the office for “corporate employees whose roles were traditionally based in-office,” up from 34% who said the same in a CEO survey earlier this year....