Flex Index 5/23/23: The Case for Team-Level Agreements in Your Return-to-Office Strategy
Why team-level agreements may be your secret weapon to maximize employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention
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Blog: The Case for Team-Level Agreements in Your Return-to-Office Strategy
Brian Elliott is the Co-Founder of Future Forum and author of “How The Future Works.” He most recently was an SVP at Slack and has spent more than three decades building high-growth companies.
In this blog, we delve into four critical insights from Brian from working with hundreds of companies on hybrid and remote work:
The benefits and risks of company-wide mandates to return to office
How “team-level agreements” can drive greater employee buy-in
The evolution of the role of the manager in the age of remote work
How organizations can best enable managers to be successful
ICYMI: The Future of Remote Work | Predictions from Nick Bloom
Join host Rob Sadow as he sits down with Nick Bloom, Stanford University's renowned Economics Professor and one of the foremost experts on remote work.
In this episode, we gaze into Nick’s crystal ball on the future of remote work. We cover:
Work in 2030: What will be the most popular flexible work models, and why?
Remote work moving offshore? Why Nick thinks a lot of fully remote jobs might not end up in the United States.
Remote work decision making: How Nick feels about Jamie Dimon’s comment that remote work slows down honesty and decision-making.
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Company Spotlight
At DISA Global Solutions, Functions set office requirements with the majority offering partial or fully remote work. On average employees attend the office 25% of the time. Frontline customer-facing roles requiring in-person interaction are required to come into an office or service location.
Fact of the Week
Minimum Days/Week Quickly Becoming the Dominant Structured Hybrid Model
61% of Structured Hybrid companies are Minimum Days/Week compared to 47% in Q1 2023. Specific Days/Week is becoming less popular as employers find a need to allow teams and employees more flexibility to choose the best days to be in office.
In the Media
WSJ: The return to office is stalling out around 50%, with the percentage of companies requiring full time in office work dropping quarter over quarter
Time: Employers are moving towards Structured Hybrid, in which there are a set number of days that people are required to come into the office
HR Brew: The RTO game of tug-of-war between employees and leadership has become a saga of carrots and sticks: Some companies have mandated RTO, while others have been more lenient.
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