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A decade from now, offices shall be used for one thing and one thing only: quality time with colleagues.
This seemingly bold prediction comes from Prithwiraj Choudhury, a Harvard Business School professor and expert on remote work.

“We will probably in 10 years stop calling this ‘remote work’. We’ll just call it work,” he said.
A long-time advocate of “work from anywhere,” Choudhury has studied firms that went 100 per cent remote years before the pandemic, including software companies Gitlab and Zapier. His research showed that a hybrid workforce is more productive, more loyal and less likely to leave. With companies from Twitter o PwC now giving employees the option to work virtually forever, Choudhury said businesses that don’t adapt risk higher attrition. [...]"

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In 10 years, ‘remote work’ will simply be ‘work’ A decade from now, offices may only be used for one thing and one thing only: quality time with colleagues.

"According to a recent survey by TELUS International, 51 percent of employees felt less connected to their company culture while working remotely during the pandemic. 57 percent missed interacting with colleagues, 53 percent missed in-person team collaboration, and 50 percent simply missed having a clearly defined separation between work and home.

In response to feedback received in similar surveys, many companies are seeking to answer questions related to a remote work environment.
👉 How do companies engage a distributed workforce?
👉How do companies transition company culture to remote work environments?
👉How does HR retain quality staff?"

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https://www.thehrdirector.com/5-ways-to-build-corporate-culture-remotely/

"Over the years, the notion of the “workplace” as the place where work gets done has come under challenge. An employed individual typically spends over 8 to 10 hours a day at work, whether on premise or remotely, and if we consider the time someone spends thinking about a work problem or a solution to a challenge, the actual figure may be higher.
Given this, the role of organisations and of the workplace in aiding health and wellness – physical and mental – is only becoming more important. [...]

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Rethinking work and wellness for the workforce of the future Employee wellbeing needs to be at the core of any workplace discussion around policies procedures and practices and this focus on well being needs to cascade from the top