Ford Announces New Hybrid Work Model Photo: Ford One of the many lessons learned over the last year: a lot of jobs can be done (and even done better) at home. With vaccines rolling out and business gradually creeping back to something like normal (knock on wood), Ford has taken that lesson from the pandemic and rolled it into a new, hybrid work schedule for salaried employees. Ford said Wednesday that a June employee satisfaction survey influenced the new model. Of 56,000 employees surveyed globally, 95 percent said that they would prefer a mix of in-office and remote work after the pandemic.