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The Hybrid Workplace Is Not A Flexible Choice But An Inevitable Reality

We have been talking about flexible work more and more each year for the last decade but the events of 2020 have brought this discussion to the fore. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a mass remote working trial beyond anything anyone could ever have imagined, as we discussed in March. Now, as we move into December and vaccines begin to move into production and distribution phases, we can start to assess the impact of this mass remote working trial on the future of work. While 2021 will still be dominated by social distancing and other public health regulations, it seems that even after this crisis is over, the workplace will never return to the pre-COVID norms. According to research by Stanford University, 42% of the US labor force are now working from home full time, while another 33% are not working at all due to the pandemic, meaning almost twice as many employees are now working […]

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