Making the Hybrid Workplace Fair
by Mark Mortensen and Martine Haas
THE EARLY STAGES OF THE COVID-19 pandemic upended much about how we work. What came next was neither the death of the office nor a return to the way things were. Instead, our new reality is hybridity: working with employees who are colocated in the same physical space as well as employees working remotely.
Hybridity promises organizations the benefits of remote working (increased flexibility, reduced carbon footprint, labor-cost optimization, and increased employee satisfaction) alongside the critical strengths of traditional, colocated work (smoother coordination, informal networking, stronger cultural socialization, greater creativity, and face-to-face collaboration). But ...
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