People are snapping back to old behaviors - which are bad! We have to retrain employees to figure out the best ways to work, whether that’s in an office, or in a park, or over Zoom. How should employers work with employees to figure out the next step?Īs we’ve seen people get back to the office, that muscle memory of what used to happen is unbelievably strong.
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And employees are saying, ‘I’m an adult, I’m responsible, I get my job done, and there shouldn’t be arbitrary rules around where I am to do that job.’ We work with a lot of folks that think about offices in terms of square-foot per person, but we’re counseling our clients to first listen to their employees. And now it’s like, ‘Just kidding, we need you here three days a week!’ That’s a bad look, and it’s whiplash for the employee. Especially in big tech, which had originally said they’d never have an office again. We’re in this weird moment right now where you’re seeing a push-pull. It does feel like there are a lot of shifting policies right now. And we’re now starting to hear from some of them and they do need a space, or a retreat center or a hub. We had a couple of clients that came out fairly early last year and said they were going to give up their offices and be remote-first moving forward. Throughout the pandemic, did a lot of businesses jump to conclusions about how they’d use - or not use - their offices? We’re counseling our clients to survey, listen, pay attention. How are your clients talking about the so-called return to work?Ī lot of our clients are expecting to know what’s to come, and we’re tempering that conversation with: We’re still learning.
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