Hybrid work

Posted by Martin Oest on April 16, 2021

A number of interesting conversations relating to hybrid work this week.

  • Clubhouse with Brenda and Austin, Modern Learning Mondays - L & D and HR open discussion
  • Professor Lynda Gratton's cover article in next months Harvard Business Review - How to do hybrid right. And the LinkedIn conversation.
  • Work and Employment Research Centre Webinar on work from home and leadership during the pandemic, presenters of the research included a couple of Professors from or previously at my alma mater.
  • Another Clubhouse conversation with Jennifer and Todd, Edtech & Future of Work - Is Hybrid here to stay?
  • First check out the article and the research as well as the comments on the article and maybe the people. Then please connect with me here or/and on LinkedIn to hear/read more from me. In addition join me also on Clubhouse for live conversations.

    One thing has not been covered enough in my mind though. It is the elephant in the room as I see it, the big volume of ‘Factory’ work (place dependent); often low skilled or manual and so much of the (non-factory) hospitality and care sectors. The HBR article touched on in the Brit Insurance example although it was not resolved.

    This was also raised in a conversation I had with Austin and Brenda on Clubhouse earlier this week, partly in relation to strategic workforce planning, learning and the future of work. We covered how to provide the foundational entry level into the workplace. So critical. Where, as Lynda points out, tenure at work especially early career plays a big part.

    How do we prepare and introduce the young into work when entry level work is displaced and how does the argued for fairness fit into this scenario?

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