Hybrid working is far more than being in an office three days a week and working from home for two days.
Most people seem to be using the terms ‘hybrid’ and ‘flexible’ working interchangeably. Past flexible working practices have tended to lock people into a certain number of days a week in an office versus remote. This might be simple from a contractual perspective, but ties people into a certain pattern of working which is actually inflexible flexi-working.
Just as the hybrid, zedonk (which looks like a donkey with zebra socks), doesn’t spend three days a week as a zebra, and two days as a donkey, hybrid work is an entirely separate species of work. It’s a style where there’s flexibility in terms of both place and time and where digital platforms come together with leadership, communication, and coordination to create a good employee experience wherever the employee happens to be. It’s a new kind of workplace and we’re at the beginning of a very long journey to figure out how (and if) it will succeed.
The whitepaper looks at the future ideal which is to create a hybrid which combines the best of the digital and physical worlds, rather than creating a monster - a ‘donkbra’ - a messy, unwieldy ‘horrible hybrid’. It discusses the five things we need to think about:
- place
- leadership
- collaboration and video fatigue
- time, coordination and productivity
- wellbeing and burnout.
Download our whitepaper to find out how to make the hybrid workplace work for you. You can also visit our digital workplace solutions to unlock the full potential of your team and enable them to work effectively from anywhere.
