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You're listening to women at work. You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Emily Kaulfield.

I'm Amy Gallo.

And I'm Amy Bernstein.

Little by little, offices that have been closed for months because of the

pandemic are finally reopening. And some employees who had been working from home

are now putting on their face masks and heading in to test out their company's reentry plans.

What will this next phase of work life mean for women's careers? How well do hybrid teams include people doing their jobs remotely?

Will the more even division of housework and child care

that many couples achieved while working from home last?

And what about women who aren't able to return to an office?

These are questions that we'll continue to pay attention to and try to answer.

And when findings from research studies on these issues start coming in, we'll share them with you so that we can all

understand the big picture. But for now we're going to start small and hear from

women who have been back to their offices, like me and Amy B.

Then I'll speak with a colleague of ours who, like me,

hasn't gone back.

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