Some companies are trying to mimic that "running into someone in a hallway" feeling through Slack integrations like Donut, which pairs random people from across a company and sets up short Zoom meetings for spontaneous, casual chats. When a virtual meeting takes place, a few steps can go far in leveling the playing field, things as simple as calling on people who are remote first, said Traci Palmer, VP of people and organizational development at Citrix.Īnother ground rule according to hybrid work experts: If you are in the office together and engage in side banter, perhaps coming up with another plan of action in the hallway after everyone else has hopped off Zoom, it's your responsibility to update remote colleagues on what was decided in the hallway.Ī rendering of LinkedIn's new headquarters in Sunnyvale Image: LinkedIn/ NoTriangle Studio "We want everyone to have a common and equal experience," said Stick. Today, Evernote's policy is that every medium and large meeting takes place virtually, with Small's face on a screen side by side with every other employee's. According to Susan Stick, the company's SVP of people and general counsel, that format was a terrible audiovisual experience for remote employees. In the hybrid world, we're all disembodied faces.Įvernote, whose largest office is in Redwood City, used to broadcast its all-hands meetings from that office's cafeteria, with CEO Ian Small standing at a podium in front of rows of bleachers.
No more conference room cameras pointing down at a group of people giggling around a desk with one remote, disembodied face watching from afar.
The first ground rule: Everyone joins a meeting as an individual box on Zoom. Set some ground rules for norms and behaviors. On the other end, there's redesigning entire office features, from whiteboards to furniture. On one end, there's simple norm-setting: Here's how to set up a meeting, here's how to communicate before and after a meeting. office workers surveyed believe remote employees will be at a career disadvantage for not working out of a central office, and 47% think they'll be less likely to be considered for a promotion. New research from Citrix revealed that 38% of a thousand U.S. How do you avoid creating two classes of workers: those who are in the office, getting face time with executives, and those who are just Zoom boxes on a screen, locked away from all the excitement? For all the lofty predictions on the future of work, the future will probably just look like this: some people working in an office all of the time, some people completely remote, everyone else somewhere in the middle.Ĭompanies around the world have either been preparing for this scenario or are already living it, and one question's been nagging them.
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