{"id":1963,"date":"2021-09-07T10:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T09:47:05","slug":"its-time-for-leaders-to-get-real-about-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theofficialboard.com\/best-articles\/2021-08\/its-time-for-leaders-to-get-real-about-hybrid\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for leaders to get real about hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/its-time-for-leaders-to-get-real-about-hybrid\">Viewed in McKinsey &amp; Company<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We most definitely are in era where the idea of \u201creimagining things\u201d has gained hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reimagining <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>That includes, as this report by management consultant giant McKinsey contends, the way we work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, as McKinsey documents, historical precedent for these evolutions of this nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the <strong>1800s<\/strong>, the Industrial Revolution moved many in Europe and the United States from fields to factories. In the <strong>1940s<\/strong>, World War II brought women into the workforce (if not the C-Suite) at unprecedented rates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>1990s<\/strong>, the explosion of PCs and email drove a rapid increase in productivity and the speed of decision making, ushering in the digital age as we know it today,\u201d this McKinsey report documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And so we have reached 2020 and now 2021\u2014and pressure is again mounting for another step in this seemingly endless evolution of where and how we work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No desire to go back to the pre-pandemic office life<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has changed employee expectations. What do they want? Having largely worked remotely or at least partly remotely for a year and a half, they have no desire to go back to the pre-pandemic office life that once was the conventional norm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nearly three-quarters of these employees seek to work from home two or more days a week<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The finding is supported by a McKinsey poll of 5,000 employees, which found that \u201cnearly three-quarters\u201d of these employees seek to work from home two or more days a week. What is driving this desire tor change? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly, it isn\u2019t the ease of actually working from home, which McKinsey reports \u201chas driven fatigue, difficulty in disconnecting in work, deterioration of their social networks, and weakening of their sense of belonging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Better connecting with home and family<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>So what is driving the desire such change? \u201cPushed to shelter at home, many rediscovered a connection to their home and family in ways that changed them,\u201d McKinsey reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less job attachments<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Complicating matters for employees even further is this fact: Simultaneous to their desire to substantially how and where they work, employees in the post-pandemic economy appear generally less attached to their jobs, running a risk of the next \u201cgreat attrition,\u201d representing mass departures in the labor pool as they seek opportunities more in line with their post-pandemic expectations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greater attrition<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRecent surveys found that 26 percent of workers in the United States are already preparing to look for new employment opportunities and 40 percent of workers globally are considering leaving their current employers by the end of the year,\u201d the report finds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mammoth shifts needed from employers<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Given these facts, how should employers be responding to these mammoth shifts in employee expectations? 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But one thing is for sure: Denial of these realities is not an option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Empathy<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>McKinsey sees two sensible steps as facts continue to unfold: First, express empathy with employees\u2019 predicament and try to assess their mood on their work conditions periodically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Flexibility and experimentation<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Second, maintain some flexibility and don\u2019t be afraid to experiment with various hybrid models of in-office and remote work; in such experimentation, companies may learn much and ultimately identify more definitive solutions to what appear to be employees\u2019 unrest with pre-pandemic in-office work models in what looks poised to represent a fairly seismic shift in work trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewed in McKinsey &amp; Company We most definitely are in era where the idea of \u201creimagining things\u201d has gained hold. 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