| The new negotiation over job benefits and perks in post-Covid hybrid work | | |  | FRI, APR 30, 2021 | | | | | | TECH, TRANSFORMATION AND THE FUTURE OF WORK | | | | Think a friend or colleague should be getting this newsletter? Share this link with them to sign up.
The schools of thought on bringing people back to the office are wide ranging, and can often be confusing. Some organizations are adamant about bringing employees back to the office in the coming months full time. Others continue to offer up flexibility and insist remote work is sustainable and here to stay. For all the research, articles and research exploring the future of work, redefining what it means to be productive, to collaborate, and to reimagine how we do what we do, is it possible that come the fall, we'll forget everything we've learned and return to the past?
With commute times eliminated, many of us have replaced those hours with work hours. We're staring at screens. We're fatigued and need a jolt. After over a year of the pandemic upending the way we work, there are reasons to believe remote work isn't meant to be. But is a jolt back to a Monday-Friday full day at an office the solution? Many leaders, and workers alike see the hybrid model as the goldilocks solution, but time will tell if it will be the right solution. Spotify is welcoming a work-from-anywhere model. GM has embraced the idea of "working appropriately." Goldman Sachs has referred to remote work as an "aberration" and does not think remote work is the right fit for his business. This list goes on for takes on what's to come, but no firm picture exists. Are we stepping into our old offices outfitted for a future world, with inspired spaces for collaboration at all levels? A novel idea, but perhaps not reality. What office awaits? Perhaps the one you left last March.
Share what you and your team are doing. E-mail us at events@cnbc.com. | | The new negotiation over job benefits and perks in post-Covid hybrid work | | As organizations consider what a return to the office looks like, some employees say they would be willing to forgo traditional perks like health care and pay for access to office space. Major corporations remain split on the balance between in-person and remote work, with Twitter and Microsoft among those offering more liberal work-from-home policies, while Google and Goldman Sachs are eager to return to the office. Some companies like GM are outlining vague plans, and for workers intending to stay remote, experts say negotiate with managers before offices dictate a formal policy and use data to back up your argument. | | | | | | Microsoft studied worker brains during endless meetings. The results are stressful | | New Microsoft research indicates that even small breaks between work meetings, such as the video meetings of the pandemic era, can reduce brain stress. Individuals can set Office to automatically shorten any meetings they schedule as a default setting, and organizations can do the same, setting shorter default times and breaks at the beginning or end of meetings. "Even a sliver of time between these meetings can help," the company said in a blog post. | | | | | | Biggest risks in return to offices: Harvard remote work guru | | Hybrid work will be the new norm for many companies and research on telecommuting pioneers from before the Covid-19 era, across many big companies and geographies including the U.S., China and India, shows how it can be productive. Harvard Business School professor Raj Choudhury says employees and teams should be empowered to make decisions on WFH and office schedules, not CEOs or individuals alone. | | | |
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