Energy Implications of Hybrid Work: Insights from a Large-Scale Employee Survey
(2025) CISBAT 2025 - The Built Environment in Transition — Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (3.September.2025)
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- Hybrid work encompasses both physical and digital environments, involving tasks performed in offices, homes, and other locations. Despite growing awareness of hybrid work's benefits, its energy implications remain largely unexplored, particularly due to the limited understanding of how employees' work patterns and behaviors affect overall energy demand. Through a large-scale employee survey in Belgium, this study investigates how hybrid work practices influence energy demand, focusing on employees' commuting behaviors, consumption habits, social practices, and organizational factors. Through statistical methods relationships are explored between hybrid work practices, energy considerations, and energy-related behaviors. The results show consistency with assumed relationships, such as a negative correlation between time spent working from home and time spent in the office, or a priority for home-based work when allowed the flexibility. Data revealed that energy awareness did not significantly influence work-related decisions, while hybrid work intensity appeared to impact energy considerations – with lower energy considerations demonstrated by dominant office workers. Additionally, no relevant correlation was found between energy awareness and commuting choices, suggesting that practical factors like comfort and wellbeing may play a more significant role.
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Taser, A., Maskarenj, M., Jeanmart, H., & Altomonte, S. (2025). Energy Implications of Hybrid Work: Insights from a Large-Scale Employee Survey. CISBAT 2025 Conference Proceedings. Published. CISBAT 2025 - The Built Environment in Transition, Lausanne, Switzerland.