WHAT do you miss most about the office? Sixty-one percent of professionals working remotely say they miss in-person workplace conversations, according to a survey by legal firm Seyfarth at Work of more than 500 professionals. Forty-two percent of workers miss the regular and daily structure of reporting to a worksite; 40% also missed lunches and happy hours with colleagues; and 37% miss reduced interruptions by kids during the workday. But more than 70% of employees want more-flexible work arrangements.

MORE than a third of professionals say their career has stalled since the start of the pandemic, and that jumps to 66% for 18-to-24-yearolds, according to a new survey of 2,800 workers by Robert Half. Fifty-four percent of all workers feel stuck when it comes to salary growth, 47% cite general career advancement, 47% cite ability to grow their professional network and 44% cite skills development.

IN a Robert Half survey of more than 2,800 senior managers, 59% of senior managers revealed they have postponed promoting top performers due to the Covid-19 pandemic, though now 78% of those respondents worry about staff retention as a result.

SOME unemployed workers are willing to accept less pay, in exchange for working remotely, according to a survey by CareerBuilder. Half of unemployed women said they would accept a 10% pay cut, but 22% of women said they would turn down a job that didn’t offer the ability to work remotely, compared to 13% of men. A third of women resigned or reduced work hours due to caring for and schooling their children.

BUT work from home isn’t playing out equally. While 36% of women applied to a job outside their geographic region based on remote work expectations, 67% of Black and Hispanic women stated they had not applied to a job outside of their geographic region. Just 18% of Black Americans would turn down a job if it didn’t allow a work from home option.