has renamed the channel from "hybrid-work-and-the-future-of-the-office" to "hybrid-work"

had an interesting article sent to me yesterday that labels different approaches to hybrid work!

Really interesting article, thanks for sharing @Naomi Grey! Which model will you be adopting?

Interesting article in the WSJ about employees choosing to quit their jobs rather than go back to the office 5-days-a-week. I'd be interested to hear whether anyone has experienced this in reality? https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-going-back-to-the-officepeople-are-just-quitting-instead-11623576602

^ we had employees that moved out of the NYC area during the pandemic (some that spoke to us about it first and others that didn’t). They were clear that they were making a life choice for themselves/their families and they understood if they were going to be required in office 5 days a week that this wouldn’t work for them. Luckily we were all on board to go totally flexible so they are going to stay on with us!

Interesting article on Asana's return to the office: https://blog.asana.com/2021/04/reuniting-teams/#close My key take away is that they are taking a 'product approach' by reopening their office to a small selection of teams first and then iterating their policies based on their feedback

One of the big questions leaders will face over the next 6 months is should we tell employees which days to come into the office or let them decide? On the one hand, I believe employees should be treated as adults and trusted to make the right decision for the benefit of their work, but does that create an environment in which those who choose to come into the office more are at an advantage? I'd be interested to hear the groups view on this. Here's an interesting article that dives into it.

We’re trialling 3d in the office pw , with at least 2 of those days being from the core days (Tue, Wed, Thu). It’s mainly to encourage community and in-person collaboration. People can also come in for 5 days if they wish. Hard to know the pros and cons until we actually start doing it!

We're already finding Officely is really helping people to "free choose" their days whilst coinciding with people effectively. Definitely already seeing trends towards office either being full or empty, with people opting to stay at home if they're the only one booked in, or vice versa a flurry of last minute desk bookings if there's a good quorum of people booked for the next day. I don't think we'd have seen this happen so naturally without the Officely interface

(sorry that makes me sound like I'm Officely's biggest fan - but I do see a difference in how we're using our office vs when we last opened optionally last autumn)

👋 - hey all, I'm currently working on our hybrid playbook - I'd be really interested in hearing if anyone has facilitated any sessions with their teams yet on hybrid? I was thinking about doing a ways-of-working style session with each of our teams to define how hybrid will work for them, agree norms etc but really keen to hear what others are doing!

Random Internet/Hybrid question. When the pandemic started and our office closed causing employees to have to work from home, we paid an internet stipend to support remote work needs. Not that we are re-opening and offering a hybrid way of working, there is much discussion on whether to keep offering the stipend since employees do have the option of coming to the office and we have very good internet here. Anyone else have to make a decision on the right thing to do in this situation? What did you do!?

We didn't offer an internet stipend, but we did offer allowance for buying a monitor and chair for use at home. We're continuing to offer that in the hybrid world

Anyone considering this as a plan forward with office space https://www.protocol.com/dropbox-studios#toggle-gdpr

Thanks so much for sharing @Jody Kitcher, I thought it was such an interesting article that I wrote a short blog post highlighting the key learnings from Dropbox's approach.

Hey all 👋 Wondering if anyone has a workplace guide/manual they’d be willing to share or suggestions of helpful tips/sites to build one? Our team will be opening our new office next month and we will be doing a hybrid system. Anything helps! Thank you in advance!

Interesting article on the future of hybrid work, arguing that staff should be encouraged back into office by 'motivation and purpose' and not through set schedules. I'd be interested to hear the consensus of this group if you are planning on telling your employees which days they should be in the office, or letting them choose?

Is anyone offering a WFH allowance as part of their hybrid working approach? At the start of the pandemic we were loaning out screens and chairs but I think we now need a more scaleable approach to this. We're thinking of giving new hires a budget for this but wondering what the right amount is? Does anyone else offer this?

Interesting article from a16z on how companies are embracing Hybrid Work

What are essential slack apps for remote/hybrid? (Apart from Officely!) Mostly curious about ways to have fun with the team in slack

donut!

Polly is super useful too 🙂

Trivia looks fun, we're thinking of signing up to it. https://www.springworks.in/trivia/

@max major kudos on the new recurring booking feature! Very excited to roll that out for our org 🙌👏🎉

👋 Hello, team!

How is everyone handling Hybrid so far?

We are just writing our policy and passing it by our leadership. Our plan is to roll out our plan Sept 1 especially if things don't get rocky due to COVID. @Corina Golea where is your team in the process?

A fellow Officely company, Luminary, wrote this policy on their hybrid strategy, which might be useful.

Hi All - does anyone have any tips or guidance on how to optimise hybrid meetings over Zoom / Teams etc? i.e. with some people in the office and some remote. I’m wondering about kit set-up etc.

Hi team, we've put Hybrid Heroes on product hunt today to spread the word about the community. If you're familiar with product hunt, we'd love it if you could upvote/comment. Thank you!