"Hybrid working is here to stay. In 2025, 97% of employees said they wanted to continue working remotely. While hybrid work can yield higher productivity, employee well-being, and increased runway and profitability, many business leaders are concerned about maintaining a healthy company culture when staff and collaborators spend less time in person. Hybrid work poses challenges, including overcoming communication and collaboration roadblocks, retooling productivity management, and ensuring engagement and equity."
"However, when working across time zones, you must redefine business office hours to account for when workers can reasonably be online for collaborative work. While presenteeism doesn't equal productivity, managers play an essential role: Gallup notes that management accounts for 70% of the variance in employee engagement. Managers must set tasks and objectives with clear deadlines, ask questions about progress, be available to offer real-time guidance during "in-office" periods, and measure results through clear performance evaluations and feedback protocols."
Hybrid working is widespread, with most employees wanting to continue remote work in 2025. Hybrid models can increase productivity, employee well-being, runway, and profitability while creating cultural challenges as teams spend less time in person. Major obstacles include communication and collaboration roadblocks, retooling productivity management, and ensuring engagement and equity. Successful hybrid culture centers on shared mission, beliefs, values, and attitudes. Practical practices include emphasizing outcomes over hours, redefining office hours across time zones, empowering managers to set clear objectives and provide real-time guidance, keeping communication channels open, and granting responsibility and autonomy to sustain engagement.
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