How would you feel if your boss asked you to come back to the office next week? Let’s say, for example, that you’ve been working remotely since the start of the pandemic. You had never considered remote work as a viable option before, but now that you’ve been working from home for over a year, you love it. Your long and stressful commute is gone, you’ve been taking better care of yourself, and you have more time to spend with your family and friends.

Find out how Peloton was able to meet unprecedented demand during the pandemic lockdown.

A discussion on leadership and the role of workplace technology for today’s connected, complex world

At our annual conference, Team 21, our CEO, Mike Cannon Brookes, got the chance to sit down with the CEOs of two technology companies that have become essential to nearly all knowledge workers, especially in the last year, Slack and Zoom.

You could say that Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and founder of the venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, knows a thing or two about building startups. When we sat down with Ohanian for our CX Academy Live event, he shared his experience as an entrepreneur and the many lessons learned along the way—from his days responding to customer feedback emails at Reddit to his current role at Seven Seven Six helping the next generation of startups push forward.

Not only are HR departments charged with developing and implementing pandemic safety protocols, onerous budget and personnel reductions, and the rapid transition to remote work, but they must also support a workforce that’s stressed out, less productive, and off-site. This problem predates the pandemic, but it’s taking on renewed importance as companies fight to thrive in an increasingly digital environment.