Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series)

Reinvent your organization for the hybrid age. Hybrid work is here to stay—but what will it look like at your company? If your organization is holding on to inflexible, pre-pandemic policies about where—and when—your people work, it may be risking a mass exodus of talent. Designing a hybrid workplace that furthers your business goals while staying true to your culture requires balancing experimentation with rigorous planning. Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you adopt the best technological, cultural, and new management practices to seize the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of the hybrid age. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future. Contents 8 Introduction: Hybrid Work—Powered by Choice 12 Section 1: Designing a Better Hybrid Workplace 18 Ch. 1: How to Do Hybrid Right 20 Ch. 2: The Office Won’t Be the Same, and That’s a Good Thing 40 Ch. 3: To Make Hybrid Work, Solicit Employees’ Input 50 Ch. 4: Don’t Lose the Democratizing Effect of Remote Work 62 Section 2: Management and Culture in the Hybrid Workplace 76 Ch. 5: Managers in a Hybrid World Must Prioritize Empathy 78 Ch. 6: Managing Hybrid Power Dynamics 88 Ch. 7: What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace 98 Ch. 8: Breaking Free from a 9-to-5 Culture 110 Ch. 9: How to Have Tough Conversations About Hybrid Working Arrangements 124 Section 3: Hybrid Meetings and Collaboration 134 Ch. 10: What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting 136 Ch. 11: When Do We Actually Need to Meet in Person? 146 Ch. 12: The Next Generation of Office Communication Tech 158 About the Contributors 168 Index 174 "Hybrid work is here to stay-but what will it look like at your company? Organizations that mandate rigid, prepandemic policies of five days a week at the traditional, co-located office may risk a mass exodus of talent. But designing a hybrid office that furthers your business goals while staying true to your culture will require experimentation and rigorous planning. Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you adopt technological, cultural, and management practices that will let you seize the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of the hybrid age"-- Provided by publisher