At an increasing number of companies, the fully remote or hybrid work schedule is ebbing away, and employees are devising ways to retain what’s left of either of them, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Some companies, most prominently Twitter, are ordering employees back to the office full time. General Motors will require three day a week attendance in the office for salaried employees starting in January. In response, employees at other companies are working with their managers to alleviate any concerns about productivity.

One 26-year-old senior analyst in the biopharmaceutical industry comes in three days a week but sometimes leaves early to resume work at home in order to company with her company’s in-office requirement. She holds weekly one-on-one meetings with her manager to review her assignments and deadlines, and copies him on their completion.

Others establish how much communication to share with their managers. Mary Abbajay, president and co-founder of professional-development company Careerstone Group LLC,  advised employees to send consistent updates, taking into account how their managers likes to get them. Another method is to create a shared calendar so the boss knows an employee's schedule, she added.

Vanessa Bohns, a professor of organizational behavior at Cornell University, suggested creating a shared document or spreadsheet to note one's progress on tasks.

All of this comes as supervisors express concerns over productivity. Microsoft Corp. surveyed 20,000 people at companies around the world this summer, and found that just 12 percent of managers were fully confident that hybrid employees were productive. A survey by Capterra found that three-quarters of 500 managers will factor office attendance into performance reviews.

Managers are feeling the heat, too, as they try to set an example.

“I find it difficult to be a leader and just not be there or take off early,” Scott Jackson, a 47-year-old senior director of data architecture at a Texas transportation-logistics company, told the Journal. If others see him not work a full day when he is in the office, “that probably doesn’t set a good tone.”