Cross-sectional study reveals net performance benefits among hybrid workers, indicating that return-to-office mandates may be unjustified and counterproductive.
Key Points
Assess how hybrid work benefits and disadvantages influence task performance, contextual performance, and counterproductive work behavior through work engagement and affective commitment.
Analyzed cross-sectional survey data from 208 hybrid workers (N=208).
Modeled direct and indirect pathways across performance dimensions using structural equation modeling.
Hybrid work benefits directly improved task performance and contextual performance while reducing counterproductive work behavior.
Hybrid work disadvantages exerted a small positive effect on counterproductive work behavior but showed no direct effect on task or contextual performance.
Work engagement and affective commitment served as complementary mediators, though work disadvantages indirectly diminished performance via reduced engagement.