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Hối hận vì hành động
Làm việc từ xa
36%
≤36% gắn bó yếu với làm việc từ xa (chỉ báo về mức giữ chân của Pew — không có khảo sát hối tiếc trực tiếp nào tồn tại)
Người lao động Mỹ làm việc tại nhà ít nhất một phần thời gian (Pew)
hồi cứu, không có khung thời gian cố định
Hối hận vì không hành động
Làm việc tại văn phòng
63%
63% nhân viên văn phòng sẽ thích làm việc từ xa hơn (chỉ báo về sở thích của Pew — không có khảo sát hối tiếc trực tiếp nào tồn tại)
Người lao động Mỹ hiếm khi hoặc không bao giờ làm việc tại nhà (Pew)
hồi cứu, không có khung thời gian cố định
% hối tiếc về lựa chọn này
Làm việc từ xaLàm việc tại văn phòng
36%63%
inaction dominates — Không hành động chiếm ưu thế — hầu hết hối tiếc vì đã không hành động.
Quyết định liên quan
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No survey asks workers directly whether they regret going remote or staying in
the office, so the cleanest available signal is what people say they would
choose if they could. The Pew Research Center’s January 2025 report is lopsided
on the office side: 63% of workers who rarely or never work from home say
that, given the choice, they would prefer to work from home most or some of the
time; within that same office group, 19% would choose to work from home all the
time and only 17% would opt to keep rarely or never working remotely. Pew,
however, publishes no matching “would prefer the office” figure for people who
already work remotely, so the two sides cannot be compared like-for-like. What
Pew does show about remote workers is attachment: 46% of current remote
workers say they would be unlikely to stay at their job if their employer
eliminated work-from-home, and a smaller 36% say they would be likely to
stay — the closest thing to a low-regret ceiling on the remote side. The
pattern is consistent with Gilovich and Medvec’s long-term inaction-dominance
finding — sticking with the office when a flexible alternative exists leaves
more people wishing they had chosen otherwise — but the magnitudes on the two
sides come from different questions and should be read as directional.
A separate satisfaction survey points the same direction without being a regret
measure. The Global Work-Life Survey by Remote, the Future Workforce Alliance,
and IE Business School found 65% of remote workers “extremely satisfied”
with their jobs versus just 34% of office-based employees. That is a
satisfaction gap, not a regret rate: an earlier version of this entry inverted
those top-box scores (treating everyone not “extremely satisfied” as
regretful), which counted merely “very satisfied” workers as dissatisfied and
inflated both numbers. Those inverted figures (35% and 66%) have been dropped.
The main caveat is measurement. “Would prefer the other arrangement” still is
not lived regret — someone content in the office who would mildly prefer
flexibility counts in the 63%, so the proxy can overstate true regret. The
direction is robust across independent surveys; the absolute magnitudes should
be read as upper bounds. The often-quoted Envoy figure that “80% of bosses
regret return-to-office plans” is excluded here as a worker-level rate: it
measures executives’ process regret about how their company handled RTO, a
different population and a different construct. The Pew sample is US adults;
remote-work norms vary across countries.
Nguồn: hành động
Sổ cái xác nhận
Mỗi con số dưới đây là những gì mỗi nguồn đã báo cáo, cùng với trích dẫn nguyên văn mà chúng tôi dựa vào và cách chúng tôi đưa ra con số của mình. Nhấp vào bất kỳ liên kết nào để xác minh trực tiếp.
[1]Pew Research Center — Many remote workers say they'd be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
Nghiên cứu chính
46% of current remote workers would be unlikely to stay if remote work were eliminated; a smaller 36% say they'd be likely to stay
Trích đoạn
“"46% say that if their employer no longer allowed them to work from home, they would be unlikely to stay at their current job. This includes 26% who say they'd be very unlikely to stay. A smaller share (36%) say they'd be likely to stay at their job, with 20% saying they'd be very likely to do so."
”
Dữ liệu nguồn từ
2025-01-13
Truy cập
2026-06-30
Tính toán
Pew Research Center analysis based primarily on 2,315 US working adults, from a larger survey conducted Oct 7-13, 2024. No survey asks remote workers directly whether they regret going remote, and Pew reports NO figure for current remote workers who would prefer the office. (An earlier version of this entry displayed Pew's "17% would opt for rarely or never working from home" as a remote-worker office-preference — but that 17% is drawn from the OFFICE subgroup, workers who rarely/never work from home, so it measured office-worker contentment, not remote-worker regret; it has been removed.) The only correctly-populated remote-side signal Pew provides is the retention question: 46% of current remote workers would be unlikely to stay if WFH ended (strong attachment / low regret), while a smaller 36% say they'd be likely to stay — i.e. would tolerate losing remote work. We use that 36% "likely to stay even if WFH ended" share as a deliberately generous UPPER BOUND on weak attachment to remote (proxy_only). It overstates true regret — someone content remote who would still stay if forced back counts in it — so read it as a ceiling, not a regret rate. We do not derive any figure from a satisfaction score.
[2]Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School — Remote workers are happier and healthier than in-office counterparts, survey finds
Nghiên cứu chính
65% of remote workers reported being 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, vs 34% of office-based employees (satisfaction, not regret)
Trích đoạn
“"65% of remote workers said they were 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, compared to just 34% of office-based employees. 42% of remote workers rated themselves as '8' or above on a happiness scale out of 10, compared to just 21% of office workers."
”
Dữ liệu nguồn từ
2024-06-15
Truy cập
2026-04-26
Tính toán
Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School Global Work-Life Survey of 1,000 workers across five continents. Included only as satisfaction context — remote workers report markedly higher job satisfaction than office workers. We do NOT invert the "extremely satisfied" share into a regret rate; non-top-box satisfaction is not regret. The headline action rate comes from the Pew retention proxy above.
Nguồn: không hành động
Sổ cái xác nhận
Mỗi con số dưới đây là những gì mỗi nguồn đã báo cáo, cùng với trích dẫn nguyên văn mà chúng tôi dựa vào và cách chúng tôi đưa ra con số của mình. Nhấp vào bất kỳ liên kết nào để xác minh trực tiếp.
1/2 nguồn được xác minh độc lập đúng từng chữ so với nguồn được trích dẫn
[1]Pew Research Center — Many remote workers say they'd be likely to leave their job if they could no longer work from home
Đã xác minh
Nghiên cứu chính
63% of workers who rarely or never work from home say that, if they could choose, they'd work from home most or some of the time
Trích đoạn
“"63% of those who rarely or never work from home now say that, if they could choose, they'd work from home most or some of the time. About one-in-five (19%) say they'd choose to work from home all the time, and 17% say they'd opt for rarely or never working from home."
”
Dữ liệu nguồn từ
2025-01-13
Truy cập
2026-06-30
Xác minh
Trích đoạn đã được tải lại độc lập và xác nhận đúng từng chữ so với nguồn được trích dẫn trong quá trình kiểm định căn cứ của chúng tôi.
Tính toán
Pew Research Center analysis based primarily on 2,315 US working adults, from a larger survey conducted Oct 7-13, 2024. No survey asks office workers directly whether they regret not going remote, so we use the revealed-preference proxy Pew states verbatim: among workers who rarely or never work from home, 63% would prefer to work from home most or some of the time if they could choose, 19% would choose to work from home all the time, and only 17% would opt to keep working rarely or never from home. This is a "would reverse the choice" preference measure within the office subgroup, not a satisfaction inversion.
[2]Remote / Future Workforce Alliance / IE Business School — Remote workers are happier and healthier than in-office counterparts, survey finds
Nghiên cứu chính
Only 34% of office-based employees reported being 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, vs 65% of remote workers (satisfaction, not regret)
Trích đoạn
“"65% of remote workers said they were 'extremely satisfied' with their jobs, compared to just 34% of office-based employees. 42% of remote workers rated themselves as '8' or above on a happiness scale out of 10, compared to just 21% of office workers."
”
Dữ liệu nguồn từ
2024-06-15
Truy cập
2026-04-26
Tính toán
Same Global Work-Life Survey. Office workers report much lower job satisfaction than remote workers (34% vs 65% extremely satisfied). Included only as satisfaction context. We do NOT invert the 34% top-box share into a 66% regret rate — non-top-box satisfaction is not regret. The headline inaction rate comes from the Pew preference proxy above. (The widely cited Envoy figure that "80% of bosses regret return-to-office plans" measures EXECUTIVES' process regret about their company's RTO strategy, not individual office workers regretting in-person work, so it is not used as the worker-level rate here.)
Lưu ý
Neither rate is a direct regret measure, and the two sides rest on DIFFERENT proxies. No published survey asks "do you regret choosing remote work?" or "do you regret not going remote?". For the office (inaction) side, Pew's January 2025 report gives a clean, correctly- populated preference proxy: 63% of workers who rarely or never work from home would, given a free choice, prefer to work from home most or some of the time. For the remote (action) side, Pew reports NO comparable "would prefer the office" figure for current remote workers; its "17% would opt for rarely or never working from home" is drawn from the OFFICE subgroup, not remote workers, so it does not measure remote-work regret and is not used here. The only correctly-populated remote-side signal is the retention question — 46% of current remote workers would be unlikely to stay if WFH ended (strong attachment / low regret), while a smaller 36% would be likely to stay. We report that 36% as a deliberately generous upper bound on weak attachment to remote work, not as a regret rate; it overstates true regret because someone content remote who would still tolerate a return-to-office counts in it. Because the action-side proxy is a ceiling rather than a like-for-like preference measure, the −0.27 delta between the two sides should be read as directional, not precise. An earlier version of this entry inverted "extremely satisfied" survey percentages into regret rates (35% and 66%); that conflated mild satisfaction with regret and has been removed. The Remote/IE Business School satisfaction survey is retained only as context (remote workers report higher satisfaction than office workers) and was fielded by a company with a commercial interest in remote-work adoption, introducing potential framing and sampling bias. The often-cited Envoy "80% of bosses regret return-to-office plans" figure measures executives' process regret about their company's RTO strategy — a different population and construct — so it is not used as a worker-level office regret rate. The Pew data is US adults; cross-national remote-work norms differ.
