Developing a system to determine the percentage of remote work hybridity for large workplaces

Statistics Canada estimates that going forward, 25% of all Canadian work hours will be completed remotely, which means that remote work will be a permanent fixture of the Canadian labour force. Increasingly, workplaces are embracing completely remote or hybrid (a combination of remote and in-office work). Regardless, often these decisions are made by the workplace without a holistic consideration of managerial expectations and the lived experience of the employee. As a sustainable commuting organization, pointA has always recommended remote work as one tool to tackle traffic congestion and to reduce the incidences of driving alone. However, in order to truly ensure that the workplace and employees can reap the full environmental, economic, and health and well-being benefits of remote work, this internship will consider how to create a system that will pointA make evidence-based recommendations on whether a job can be made remote or hybrid. This will be supplemented by pointA’s programs and services (both new and existing) to help provide support for both in-office or remote work environments.

Faculty Supervisor:

David Wolfe

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Partner:

pointA

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of Toronto

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