Most conversations I have with people about workplace occupancy include the phrase “days per week in the office.” Over the past two years, this way of thinking about occupancy has become increasingly problematic when considering how people actually work. It can be hard to overcome the hybrid propaganda about 2 to 3 days per week…
Tag: hybrid
Two years after becoming the word everyone uses to describe post-pandemic working, does hybrid have a real definition yet?
Hybrid may have been the corporate-speak word of the year for 2022. Hybrid working and hybrid workplaces were all the rage as the world settled on that word to describe the flexibility they were “granting” employees to not be in the office. There was no solid definition of the word other than everyone agreed it…
Hybrid Workplaces require teams to reimagine their cultural dynamics when not together as often.
While no one agrees on what hybrid working means in practice, it is universally agreed that it means less often in the office than in 2019. A very small percentage of people are back as often as they used to be, some people are now only 1 day a week less in the office, and…
It’s not about being either office or remote…but hybrid and flexible aren’t the right terms either.
This is the age of awful, awkward workplace operations conversations! Topping the list of language we will all one day cringe at are these lovelies: Hybrid working Flexible working Agile workplace Remote versus virtual Hoteling and hot-desking Monday/Friday in-office “How many days are right in the office?” Personas There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of…