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72% of people prefer working a hybrid of at home and an office.
13% of people prefer always working at home.
12% of people prefer always working in an office.
73% of people who began working from home in 2020 said it was a success.
32% of new work from home people would prefer it permanently. 

For the long term impact, it’s expected the amount of office space rented in the next three years drops 30% and 22% of Americans will work at home primarily by 2025, which is 87% higher over before the pandemic. 

Those were a bunch of surveys on thousands of people, showing very high employee support for work from home.

This is why Elon Musk shocked a lot of people announcing his companies will be moving away from work from home and going entirely back to offices, requiring a minimum of 40 hours a week at the office.

110,000 Tesla employees
12,000 SpaceX employees
7,500 Twitter employees, even though that deal likely never happens.

All of which will be required to go back to the office for a five day work week.

# Here’s why that’s a mistake for Elon Musk.

FlexJobs did a study on the number one thing employees request from employers. 

79% answered work flexibility, outperforming salary or benefit gains.

918,000 programming/IT jobs in the US are currently available that aren’t being filled right now.
920,000 engineering jobs are also not filled.

4.4 million is the number of people employed full time as programmers, in the US today.
289,000 full time mechanical engineers.
2 million people employed in some sort of engineering currently.

For software engineers, the unemployment rate is only 1.7%, with the majority saying they’ve declined at least one job offer.
For engineers in general, the unemployment rate is 1.6%.

3.6% is the unemployment rate currently for all jobs. 

$127,000 is the average software engineer salary in the US.
$138,000 is the average for engineers in general.

$56,000 is the average American’s salary.

The types of jobs Tesla/SpaceX are hiring for are heavily in demand, have low unemployment rates and make over twice as much as the average median salary.

Elon Musk getting rid of work from home, puts both companies in a position where people could leave or just not apply in the first place.

Another big problem is experience, where more experienced staff with families prefer work from home statistically. 

This is bizarre, where most companies are working to accommodate for work from home, Elon Musk made the opposite decision and could cost him a lot of talent.