Work Environment Preferences: WDC Regional Insurance Community

September 27, 2024

Last week we conducted a direct email campaign to 3,267 insurance professionals located in the WDC region to get their opinion on their work environment preferences.

We threw in a new wrinkle:  We included the option of working a 38 hour four-day work week with either Friday or Monday being a day off.  This is becoming a trend with our European-based colleagues and it is working quite well – picking up steam.

The way it works is that workers work 38 hours per week either Monday – Thursday and on alternating weeks Tuesday – Friday.  This way, the office is covered five days per week with 50% of the staff on Monday and Friday.  Each worker would get a three-day weekend having either Friday or Monday off EVERY week.

The 3,067 insurance professionals located in the Mid-Atlantic region were asked the question, “What workplace environment do you prefer?”  They were given five choices: 1) Fully Remote, 2) Classic 2/3 Hybrid, 3) Classic 3/2 Hybrid, 4) Classic Hybrid 4/1, and 5) Four-Day work week.

We received 525 responses which would make this statistically relevant for the WDC regional insurance community.  Based on other data we track with the candidates; the response is not what I expected with the Four-Day work week prevailing over both hybrid options.  Here are the results:

There was some very interesting feedback on tweaking the 4-day work week, but that is not covered in this summary post. For the full report, you can contact me directly for the complete report.

Work Environment Preferences:

Fully Remote 39.00%

Hybrid 2/3 20.00%

Hybrid 3/2 13.00%

Hybrid 4/1 6.00%

4-day Work Week 22.00%