A part-time return to the office?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A hybrid model mixing home working with office time is being favoured by major companies. But critics worry it will create divisions in the workplace. Small business owner and columnist Gene Marks explains why managing remote workers presents such a challenge, and Darren Murph from GitLab, a tech firm of 1,300 employees and no office, tells us why having a mix of home and office work could be the worst of both worlds. Economist Nicholas Bloom discusses the risk of discriminating between workers who choose to spend more or less time in the office, and remote working expert Kate Lister tells us why companies will have to offer flexible working to attract employees in the future.
(Photo: A man works at home on his bed, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service. |
| 0:02.9 | These attackers have no fear. |
| 0:04.5 | They would have killed me had they found out. |
| 0:06.4 | It was really intense. |
| 0:08.4 | I just saw the entire financial markets grinding to a halt. |
| 0:12.5 | This is what they've stolen. |
| 0:14.0 | So many millions of dollars. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, it's got to be North Korea. |
| 0:16.3 | There was chaos. |
| 0:17.2 | What do you mean they've disappeared? |
| 0:18.3 | It was almost like a perfect crime. |
| 0:19.8 | Where did they get them on? |
| 0:20.8 | How in the world did this happen? The Lazarus Heist from the BBC World Service, coming soon. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa. Coming up, why the pandemic's homeworking revolution |
| 0:40.1 | might stick. Typically three days a week in the office, two days a week at home. And that works |
| 0:45.5 | fantastically well. It balances the need to be in the office, see people face to face, have meetings. |
| 0:50.9 | And then those two days of quiet and peace at home and you can concentrate |
| 0:54.5 | and avoid commute. But could this kind of hybrid working come with its very own set of |
| 0:59.4 | problems? People worried about their career prospects, that there'll be this sort of haves and have-nots |
| 1:05.2 | and those who come to the office are going to get preference. It's something that companies really |
| 1:10.0 | need to make sure that they don't |
| 1:11.3 | create that divisive culture. That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC. |
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