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Editor's Letter Gord Delamont
Grappling
with re-entry
Gord Delamont
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OUR WEBSITE AND newsletters of late have
been full of stories about what exactly will be
normal about the new normal, as corporate
leaders everywhere evaluate post-pandemic
workplace models and consider what will work
best for their businesses. Across the spectrum of
options, we are seeing a wide range of opinions.
Some companies have already decided that their
future work model is going fully remote, while
others are hoping to get back right to where they
were before the pandemic. In between those two is
the rainbow of models being referred to as hybrid
options, where we hear terms like " optional " or
" partial " being used to describe the structures.
Indeed, views on post-pandemic remote
working are slowly dividing the corporate world.
While some companies say that workers will never
return to desks full-time, others are looking at
their current remote work situation as strictly
temporary, an aberration that they will correct as
soon as possible.
Others still are taking advantage of the booming
popularity of home working by cutting office space
and slashing footprints, moves that could usher
in permanent changes in not only how we think of
offices, but also entire city environments.
While each company weighs the pros and cons of
each variation of future work models, most people
expect hybrid working - with staff split between
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home and office - to become a permanent fixture
after the pandemic.
Exactly how that looks and works, and exactly
how the office and employee experience changes
is what is being contemplated.
So too are plans to set the date when the office
" officially " reopens - or at least partially reopens.
This month - September - had been a target date
set by many businesses, but with the battle against
Covid yet to fully ebb, many are instead continuing
to sit in a wait-and-see pose.
Besides considering what makes sense from
a business and cost perspective, the other thing
being taken into account is what employees want.
Several recent surveys point to office workers not
wanting to return to the office full-time once " normality "
returns. And according to job site Indeed,
job listings that tout working remotely as a perk
have more than doubled in the past year, signaling
that many companies will keep using the benefit
to woo employees even as the pandemic winds
down.
In the end, while the past 18 months have been
the most volatile in modern history, we would be
mistaken to think that the disruption is over.
Rather, expect this to be a time of innovative
thinking when it comes to work models, with solutions
that will continue to evolve to balance the
desires of employee needs with company needs.
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