Hybrid Work Is Here To Stay. Now What? (Back to Work, Better)

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🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Nicholas Bloom, economics professor at Stanford University, has been studying remote work and hybrid (a mix of remote and onsite) work for years. Then the pandemic made these modes widespread and lasting. He says as more organizations turn to hybrid work, they face difficult logistical, strategic, and managerial challenges. Bloom shares a guideline to implementing hybrid work plans, and helps managers think through these arrangements while balancing fairness to employees and organizational needs. Bloom is the author of the HBR article “Don’t Let Employees Pick Their WFH Days.”

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0:00.0	So you got the job. Now what? Join me, Eleni Mata, on HBR's new original podcast, New
0:08.1	Here, the Young Professionals Guide to Work, and how to make it work for you. Listen for
0:13.8	free wherever you get your podcasts. Just search New Here. See you there!
0:30.0	Welcome to the HBR ID Acast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish.
0:48.0	To say the last year has changed us would be an understatement. The pandemic forced
0:53.8	many people to work and manage much more remotely and differently. Now is a
0:59.4	growing number of places returned to more in-person work. It's a good time to
1:03.3	explore the issues that organizations and managers face as they reset and
1:08.3	reorganize their working lives. Throughout the next few months, HBR ID Acast will
1:13.6	look at these challenges and today we're starting with implementing hybrid
1:17.5	work across an organization. That's a mix of remote work and on-site activity.
1:22.8	Our guest today has studied remote work for nearly 20 years and he's here to
1:28.1	explain how leaders can think through hybrid work arrangements so that
1:31.8	they're fair to employees and effective for the organization and not just
1:35.9	short-term. Nicholas Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University and
1:41.1	the author of the HBR article don't let employees pick their work from
1:45.8	home days. Nick, thanks so much for coming on the show. Kurt, lovely to be here. Thanks.
1:58.5	So I have a lot of nitty gritty questions for you about this but just to get us
2:02.4	going here, why is it important for managers and leaders to have a strategy in
2:07.3	place when it comes to work from home and hybrid work? Can't you just kind of
2:11.4	figure it out as you go along? Oh, that's in a sense. You know, the easy
2:16.8	question firms and you know, CEOs in particular, CHRs are under enormous
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