Brown: Many Remote Workers Report Preferring Quitting Over Office Mandates
Hayden Brown · The Secrets to Scaling a Public Company with a 75% Freelancer Workforce with Upwork CEO Hayden Brown · Feb 24, 2022 · at 0:22
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Upwork CEO Hayden Brown addresses business leaders at SaaStr about post-pandemic workforce sentiment and shifts in work culture.
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“And, ah, there's been this massive change in how workers experience work over the last year plus as so many folks have been working from home and have actually reported that they would rather quit their jobs than be called back into traditional offices, and so you have this opportunity in your companies to actually rewrite what the rules of work look like as you're building the next generation of companies.”
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