Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

7 WHAT PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY LOOKS LIKE IN A HYBRID WORKPLACE

by Amy C. Edmondson and Mark Mortensen

Since the pandemic changed the landscape of work, much attention has been given to the more visible aspects of WFH, including the challenges of managing people from a distance. But a far less visible factor may dramatically influence the effectiveness of hybrid workplaces. As suggested by the above quotes, sorting out future work arrangements, and attending to employees’ inevitable anxieties about those arrangements, will require managers to rethink and expand one of strongest proven predictors of team effectiveness: psychological safety.

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