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How We Work Having the best of both worlds means a lot of WFH and a little WFO. Stowe Boyd describes his interests as "the ecology of work, and the anthropology of the future". In a recent article in his always enlightening newsletter, Work Futures, he suggests that the thinking and terminology around both the terms ‘hybrid’ and ‘remote’ are too limiting. "Let’s call the model that leads to higher engagement and productivity ‘minimum office’, and allow each person to define what that minimum is for them and their team. "I’m betting that minimum office will become dominant. Yes, many companies will opt for zero office with annual team meetings on a mountain top. But most companies will simply turn the dial up from the company’s pre-pandemic baseline, and allow people to avoid the office significantly more than in the past. For some, that could be nearly 100%, but for most — at least those that don’t move to a ski area, a sheep ranch in New Zealand, or a Caribbean island — I expect we’ll see people coordinating schedules to overlap with coworkers a day or so a week. So long as their companies let them." |