Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

11 WHEN DO WE ACTUALLY NEED TO MEET IN PERSON?

by Rae Ringel

Three days in the office, two working from home? Or two weeks in the office, then two at home (or some other, more alluring remote locale)? Everyone in all the time, like in 2019? Some of these new arrangements are landing uneasily. To get beyond this stressful push and pull, we need to reframe the conversation and focus on what we’re actually trying to achieve rather than where, precisely, we’ll be sitting when we achieve it.

As Priya Parker notes in The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, “Gatherings consume our days and help determine the kind of world we live in.” And so, to ensure that we go forward—not back—to the office, it’s critical that we reimagine a cornerstone ...