The era of baking bread on a weekday morning or wearing pajama bottoms below an ironed shirt for video office meetings appears to be on the wane in the Bay Area.

Lockdowns during the early stages of the COVID pandemic wrought seismic, lasting changes to the way people work, with full-time at-home employment leading to widely adopted hybrid mixes of remote and in-office work that remain popular among many workers and employers.

But a new poll suggests remote work is fading, and even hybrid models are losing ground. This year, nearly two-thirds of employed respondents say they worked fully in-person, compared to fewer than half last year, according to the poll by Bay Area News Group and Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a regional think tank.

“It’s a surprising result,” said Russell Hancock,

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