By Martin Vilaboy Remote Work v.2 It’s a hybridized world As the summer months came to an end, rhetoric regarding the future of remote work was heating up. By Labor Day weekend, several Fortune 500 CEOs, business influencers and media outlets publicly decried the downsides of location-flexible work schedules and predicted a wave of companies would accelerate their shift back to “normal” in-office arrangements by autumn. Judging only by newsfeeds, one would think the great remote work experiment was a failure soon coming to an official end and corporate RTO (return-to-office) plans were full-steam ahead. That’s not, however, what we are seeing on the ground. Rather, research suggests that the rates at which employees work in or outside the office have stabilized, and instead of abandoning remote work, organizations have shifted to the next chapter of the home-and-hybrid work transition. If version 1 was the rush to get things up and running, v2 is more about doing things right, or figuring out best practices for enabling and managing dispersed workforces. And despite any recent headlines concerning RTO mandates or anti-WFH tweets, it’s more likely we’ll see increased rates rather than declining INTELLIGENCE 26 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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