Is remote work better than being in the office? It's complicated | Mark Mortensen

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Opinions about remote work are plentiful and conflicting -- but what does the research say? Organizational design expert Mark Mortensen identifies the challenges of navigating the hybrid work debate and shares three conversation topics every workplace should explore as people change the way they show up on the job.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	It's Ted Talks Daily.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Elise Hew.
0:14.2	Here's a question the business world has been asking for the past couple of years.
0:18.4	How do we best make hybrid work work?
0:21.0	It is 2021 Talk from Ted X.
0:23.8	Sydney Salon, Professor of Organizational Behavior Mark Mortensen, helps us get to some answers
0:29.2	by reframing the big questions we should be asking and reminding us what's most important
0:34.8	to preserve when workers change the way we show up at work after a break.
0:40.8	Hi, I'm Ann Morris and I'm Frances Fry.
0:44.5	We're the host of a new podcast from Ted, called Fixable.
0:47.7	We've helped leaders at some of the world's most influential companies solve all kinds
0:51.8	of issues.
0:52.8	And here, on our new show, we're taking your calls and having unfiltered conversations
0:57.8	that will help you fix your workplace problems in a single session.
1:02.6	You'll hear from a CEO who is struggling to keep an engaged and remote workforce.
1:07.2	It was probably the worst year.
1:09.3	We had phenomenal growth, but from the people standpoint, it was the worst.
1:13.6	We had the highest amount of the friction.
1:15.9	Check out Fixable, wherever you listen to podcasts.
1:19.8	Over the past two years, how many times have you heard that the times have changed or
1:23.5	about the new normal?
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