{"id":470539,"date":"2026-02-15T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:39:13","slug":"theres-something-workers-prize-more-than-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470539\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Something Workers Prize More Than Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Workers aren&#8217;t just asking where they can work\u2014they&#8217;re increasingly asking when. In a piece for <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/work-life-balance-pay-salary-hybrid-remote-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quartz<\/a>, Matthew Fray reports that while many CEOs expect a full-time return to the office by 2027, the sharper fault line isn&#8217;t office vs. remote anymore. It&#8217;s &#8220;time autonomy&#8221;: control over start and stop times, meeting load, focus hours, and personal boundaries. (You can also think of it as <a href=\"https:\/\/vocal.media\/earth\/65-of-workers-are-interested-in-microshifting-their-schedules-as-an-alternative-to-the-strict-9-to-5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">microshifting<\/a>.)&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Citing the Workplace You Need Now co-author Peter Miscovich, Fray notes that work-life balance has now edged out compensation as the top priority for 65% of office workers worldwide; a figure that&#8217;s grown six points over the past four years. Employees say location flexibility alone doesn&#8217;t solve their real constraints; schedule control does.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The challenge for companies: maintaining coverage and collaboration without slipping into an &#8220;always on&#8221; culture or grinding decisions to a halt when key people aren&#8217;t simultaneously available. The article points to emerging fixes\u2014core collaboration hours is one\u2014and explains how one company successfully implemented schedule autonomy. For that story and more, read the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/work-life-balance-pay-salary-hybrid-remote-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Workers aren&#8217;t just asking where they can work\u2014they&#8217;re increasingly asking when. In a piece for Quartz, Matthew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8739,6856,218482,10963,74],"class_list":["post-470539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-caregivers","tag-leadership","tag-office-workers","tag-productivity","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}