Hybrid work and back-to-work are topics on everyone’s minds right now, but when I watch and listen to people talking about them, I realize they are only getting half the story. They focus so much on location and logistics, and are blind to the true revolution that stands before them, which is a new opportunity for wholly productive and inclusive collaboration. We are now undergoing a people-focused transformation.Generally, when people come up against change, their first instinct is to ask, “what will I lose?” It has always been so much about the fear of loss rather than the potential for gain. So, with hybrid and back-to-work, they picture more clumsy meetings done from living rooms and kitchens, and they worry about how the community – the team – that was once centered within the office, will dry up and blow away. Managers question whether they can trust their home-based employees to do their assigned work unobserved, and wonder whether they themselves are capable of managing them properly, as this Harvard Business Review (June 2020), article describes.  To read this article in full, please click her
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