GartnerHR expert Alexia Cambon says that organisations are trapped in a vicious cycle of marketing the office as what they want it to be – a place for collaboration – while it remains mostly empty. Read more via guardian here: CHRO HR
Photograph: Getty ImagesPhotograph: Getty Imagesou haven’t been in the office this week. Why?” The worker in question hadn’t expected such an email from his boss. Based in Asia but working for a large US media organisation, he had been on an overseas work trip, and his failure to swipe his pass at the building’s turnstiles while he was away had triggered an alert.
Months after Covid restrictions in the UK were lifted, there has not been a large-scale return of office workers to their desks. Now a tug-of-war is playing out between those who wish to see flexibility about where, and sometimes when, people do their jobs become a permanent fixture, and those keen to return to pre-pandemic patterns.
On the other side are frustrated managers at large office-occupiers who say they want to reignite their workplaces with the collaboration and creativity that comes from in-person interaction. How organisations manage hybrid working – where colleagues split time between the office and home or another remote location – was top of the agenda at a recent human resources conference in Docklands hosted by consultancy Gartner and attended by HR teams from some of the UK’s largest firms.. “The majority of organisations I speak to are trying to market the office as a place for collaboration, community and connection.
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