What Ford, a 9-to-5 workweek pioneer, is learning about hybrid work

After several setbacks and delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ford Motor Co. finally started to welcome its salaried workforce back to its offices earlier this month.

It also came alongside a significant shift in workplace policy from the company that helped establish the traditional five-day, 40-hour workweek as the norm: the start of its new hybrid work model where non-site-dependent employees could work flexibly between a Ford campus location and remote.

Ford perhaps had reason to believe many of its employees would look to return to the office once the plan rolled out. The