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If you look at different surveys about what workers (employees) want from work in the supposed “New Normal,” you almost have a 33% breakdown along three potential solutions:
- We all come back to HQs.
- We all go remote.
- Some hybrid (a mix of the two).
Well, as noted yesterday by Neuroleadership Institute’s David Rock on this webinar, here’s the problem: if you choose one lane and say this is the only lane, you will subsequently alienate 66% of your workforce, which isn’t a good talent position to be in.
This is a complicated time for talent discussions, because we’re at this weird intersection of the dog whistle over “No one wants to work” — that’s cooked up mostly by right-leaning media to indicate that Biden is a deranged fossil who is handing out money like Oprah and cars — and then this whole “If you don’t offer remote, you will lose top talent,” which is an inherently-privileged discussion if we’re being honest, because only about 30–40% of people can even work remotely as is.
Those are the two ideological swim lanes — the government is handing money to lazy bums, and/or you will lose some superstar coder if you don’t let him work from a ranch at Bozeman — and at the same time, companies need to make decisions about the…
