While five years experience of wide(r) hybrid working has suggested there may be little in the way of productivity improvement from hybrid work..... but:

it enhances worker/staff wellbeing;

if managed well (with anchor days for instance) it can actually enhance staff collaboration; and

by making work, work better for staff, it aids retention rates.

Only middle management may be sceptical, not least as they see power slipping away form them.

#workers #HybridWorking
https://theconversation.com/what-five-years-of-evidence-on-hybrid-working-tells-us-about-the-future-of-employment-270319

Anyone had good experiences or tips on running hybrid lunches (including colleagues who can't physically attend informal lunches via Zoom or similar). #HybridWorking

RE: https://mastodon.social/@amosbeech/115298032311013315

About 24 years ago, I met them for the first time and we worked together in various ways ever since; manufacturer-dealer, non formal business relationship, photography client, employee-employer and now as a subcontracter for photography and marketing services. It works great, both in the office in #Falkirk, on site covering their projects and here in the office in NL working on digital marketing!
#HybridWorking #BusinessRelationship #photography #marketing

Meanwhile in Australia:

The state of Victoria's Government is looking to give workers the right to work from home two days a week should they want to...

As hybrid work has become normalised across the world's developed economies, so the 'negotiations' about working from home & office time have become more fraught.

With opinion polls suggesting a majority of Victoria's population support this move, there will will be a lot of interest in how this plays out!

#HybridWorking #workers

h/t FT

"The office remains central to working life, provided it is designed to balance business needs with employee wellbeing.":

https://workplaceinsight.net/return-to-office-policies-now-more-common-but-raise-peoples-expectation-of-better-workplaces/

#hybridworking #officewellbeing #officedesign

"Office utilisation improves and structured return-to-office policies become more widespread.":

https://workplaceinsight.net/better-offices-for-all-as-occupiers-shift-focus-away-from-cost-cutting/

#officedesign #officeoccupancy #HybridWorking

“Jamie Dimon is unequivocal about the impact of #RemoteWorking on #training new bankers. “It doesn’t work in our business,” the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase told Stanford’s Graduate School of Business this year.

“Younger people [are] left behind.”
He has previously spoken of the importance of “the #apprenticeship model . . . which is almost impossible to replicate in the #Zoom world”.

In many #workplaces, that #ApprenticeshipModel is as simple as sitting near a more experienced #colleague or joining a #client meeting to watch how it is done, while also *learning the ropes* by taking on often more #repetitive and #basic #tasks.

But #OnTheJob learning is now facing the double threat of #HybridWorking, which means #JuniorStaff spend less time #observing and #listening to more senior #colleagues, and #GenerativeAI, which is making #obsolete many of the routine tasks that have long been building blocks of #ProfessionalKnowledge.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork / #AI <https://www.ft.com/content/071089b8-839a-4f96-af79-394c08a146d1> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/WROMn>

Its increasingly clear hybrid working (working from home) is settling down to a compromise between workers/staff & employers of three days a week in the office... it would seem likely that these three days will be (across countries) Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday.

For firms servicing commuters (in office areas), this looks like a prompt to revise their own workers' shifts patterns... but how this will impact on local economies is less clear; will WFHers spend more locally, now?

#HybridWorking

#OpenToWork Hi y'all.
I'm now properly looking for a new job, available from early September for a senior software role. Ideally, in #Kotlin or Java-to-Kotlin conversion. I think I can tick just about all the important boxes for backend development and some more. (especially XP, #DevOps, #TDD, trunk-based development, pairing, fast feedback cycles). Ideally, #remote or flexible #HybridWorking in #London (the one in the #UK).
:BoostOK:

Leaving aside the ONS' current travails with their workforce data, I think we can take as pretty indicative their confirmation that hybrid working is highly class determined, with workers with degrees & in white collar jobs much more likely (unsurprisingly) to be able to work from home....

Over a quarter of workers now 'enjoy' hybrid working & they are much more likely to be living in the UK's least deprived areas.

#inequality #HybridWorking #workers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/11/over-a-quarter-of-workers-in-britain-engage-in-hybrid-working-ons-finds

I’m the parent of a one year old child. I’ve received several invitations to speak at workshops and conferences this year, and not one has been willing or able to accommodate me giving a remote talk.

Did we learn nothing from the pandemic? And if I with all my privilege (and being gallus enough to ask) can’t do it, what hope for precarious, early career, minoritised academics?

@academicchatter

#AcademicChatter #HybridWorking #parenting

If the Labour Govt. was serious about helping disabled people get work (rather than a bad faith rationalisation for disabled benefits cuts), what they should be doing is helping ensure that hybrid working (and extensive working from home) is protected & indeed, promoted (and not just for the disabled).

The Work Foundation has found hybrid working plays a major role in allowing people with a range of health conditions to manage them.

#HybridWorking #workers #disability
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/work-foundation/publications/beyond-the-office

Quite how angry workers who have been enjoying hybrid work (working from home for some of the week) are about calls to 'return to the office' is becoming increasingly clear.

Good management would (and is) finding ways to make hybrid work well (as indeed it often does), but of course the UK bullying (toxic) managers only see a threat to their authority, while landlords are worried about under used (and thus soon to be vacant) office space.

#workers #HybridWorking

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/31/half-of-uk-professionals-might-quit-if-ordered-back-to-the-office-full-time-poll-shows

Come and work with me and my fabulous network team in Loughborough, UK!

Happy to answer questions in public or via DM

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ032/it-specialist-network-and-smart-campus

#jobs #FediHire #networking #cisco #wifi #internet #dnac #ise #hybridWorking

Flexible working has allowed many businesses to cut overheads by reducing traditional office space and taking advantage of flexible solutions:
https://workplaceinsight.net/hybrid-working-businesses-say-they-are-more-optimistic-about-their-future-profitability/
#flexibleworking #hybridworking

Leave aside a minute your judgment on the character & operations of Fortune Magazine's top ten most admired corporations in America (they say 'world') & look at their staffing policies.

Yes, 7 out of 10 most admired top US firms are offering some form of hybrid work for their workers; perhaps UK managers should pause before continuing to impose 'back-to-the-office' requirements.

Hybrid working (for this able to take advantage of it) still looks like the way forward!

#workers #HybridWorking

"..it is clear that all of us working full-time in the office is now a thing of the past.."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qww8xdvnwo
#hybridworking #wfh #workingfromhome #collaboration

Dear companies, flexibility is a 2-way street.

"This role is an in-office position located in Vancouver, Canada or Christchurch, New Zealand. As a global position flexibility to take meetings outside working hours may be required."
🤦‍♂️

#WorkFromHome #HybridWorking #JobDescriptionExamples

@ChrisMayLA6 Last three times they tried “back to office” on me, I left and found a new employer. #HybridWorking rules! ✊

As managers across the economy seek to constrain or even stop hybrid working (and working from home), those sectors with stronger unionisation are reacting with strike action against such 'back to the office' policies.... this week public sector workers at the Land Registry are starting industrial action (short of a strike currently) in a dispute over a three day in the office rule being imposed on all sites.

Managers just don't (or won't) get it, will they?

#workers #HybridWorking

h/t FT