Back To The Office. WTF Now?!
Hybrid work isn't the best term, but it will do. CONTEXT COLLAPSE! 105
Warning: Another post about remote work and the return to the office by remote employees ahead. There have been a lot of these lately, and they’ve been written by a lot of people! Gonna do some total knowledge worker class inside baseball. If this isn’t your thing, skip ahead—no worries at all.
TLDR: Organizations are gonna need to get comfortable with hybrid work.
So I just finished reading a great essay by Steven Sinofsky, a well-known former Microsoft exec, called Creating the Future of Work. From Trauma to Opportunity. Sinofsky argues (and I agree with him, FWIW) that the pandemic has existentially unmoored a lot of people, and that this disconnect is going to affect the way white-collar workplaces operate as offices reopen:
We’ve all started hearing from friends, co-workers, or employees that the next steps in work are not as certain. There’s a broad re-evaluation going on about jobs, careers, and the relationship people have to work. It is not only expected, as the pandemic has bee…
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