Now that many businesses have made the leap to remote and hybrid work, some teams are struggling to sustain connection and creative momentum. Teammates can feel isolated, and silos can form across workstreams, hampering your team’s ability to collaborate. It can be difficult to build efficient workflows that support virtual and hybrid projects. But with these challenges comes a great opportunity for team leaders to reimagine the workplace. And that’s exactly what they’re doing!

We can see the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in every industry — from supply chains under strain to at-home streaming movie premieres to the widespread adoption of “BOPIS” (buy-online-pickup-in-store) in retail. Digital transformation has accelerated at the civilization level, with a massive uptick in the reported number of customer interactions taking place virtually.

The fast-paced digital transformation is challenging financial companies of today. As the world continues to battle a pandemic, customers are opting to avail online services straight from their mobile devices, while most workplaces have transformed into a hybrid arrangement.

A massive disruption to the traditional work structure took place during the pandemic. We saw how it fast-tracked previous work trends. In fact, most of us will probably agree that prior to the pandemic people rarely worked from home. Then by early 2020 things drastically changed. Employers and employees alike had to get used to a new paradigm – remote working. Most employers thought it would be temporary. However, they were wrong!

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We are in the middle of one of the biggest workplace experiments in history. While most knowledge workers have experienced remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re now shifting into new territory again—some teams will remain remote, some will go back into the office, and others will be somewhere in between. This ever-shifting landscape is what Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, says is a hallmark of a V.U.C.A.

Office timing is a crucial topic in the professional sector today. More and more people have recently started to question whether their office timing can increase the expected efficiency of managers. On the other hand, since there has been a lot of changes in the modern working environments, it is really thought-provoking sometimes to think if there is a standard office timing in the companies.