# The surprising trend of female executives preferring the office

- **Episode:** [237](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/237.md) (2025-10-02)
- **Type:** panel-interview
- **Tags:** female executives, office preference, hybrid work
- **Time:** 10:43–11:58 (start 643s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=643](https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=643)

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[10:43] Ina Purvanova: That is exactly what we found. We actually found that hybrid is both the best of both worlds and potentially could be the worst of both worlds. And the reason for that is precisely as you're pointing out, people who prefer to be in the office full-time are kind of upset as to, well, why are we hybrid? Why can't we just like rip the bandaid and say everybody back to the office all the time? And then people who prefer to be mostly remote are like, well, why are we hybrid? Why don't we just say, let's just stay home all the time? So, you know, those 2 extremes were like, the company's halfway where I want them to be. Why don't they just move fully to where I want them to be? And so there was a lot of back and forth between the officers and the avatars in hybrid settings. Whereas, you know, the integrators in hybrid settings, which are in perfect alignment with their hybrid company, obviously were kind of caught in the middle. And so I think that that's a really important thing for hybrid organizations to realize is that even though the hybrid strategy might seem as the best of both worlds, it actually may create a lot of more rifts between employees that you really, really need to manage very carefully from a human resource perspective