Technical requirements also may be a logistical hurdle. Forty-one percent of employees who work from home said they were frequently dissatisfied with the experience, according to a study published last month by office manufacturer Steelcase, with more than one-third of those working full-time from home reporting a sense of isolation.

Hybrid work decisions need to take into account a variety of factors, sources previously told HR Dive, especially cultural concerns. Google also will only permit employees to live within commuting distance from their assigned offices, according to reports, which contrasts with the more fluid plans of companies like Spotify. Google's hybrid work policy applies only to some categories of employees and will still require those employees to come to the office for at least part of the workweek, according to a late 2020 announcement from CEO Sundar Pichai.

The roll-out of such policies has not been uniform, however. Mercer survey data released in August 2020 found more than 80% of company respondents were considering flexible work at a scale greater than they had before the pandemic, and 73% planned to make the cultural changes necessary to embrace hybrid work. Consultancies including Gartner have gone so far as to say that hybrid workforce strategy will be a key factor in HR planning this year, with the pandemic encouraging organizations to re-evaluate their approaches toward flexibility in the workplace.Įmployers themselves are saying as much. Hybrid work - perhaps a futuristic concept more than a year ago - has been pushed to the forefront of the HR conversation in 2021.

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