The past 18 months have taught business leaders that flexible work and collaboration environments can be the key to business continuity—whether the business is office-centric, hybrid, or distributed. The proof is in the numbers: In 2020, the collaboration software category exploded, growing five year’s worth of users in the first six months of the year alone.
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This article originally appeared on Inc. The evidence is clear—the future of work is hybrid. According to research by Gartner, 82% of company leaders plan to allow their employees to work remotely after the pandemic at least some of the time. Yet implementing a hybrid work policy is far from straightforward. Perhaps most concerning is the potential for hybrid workplaces to breed two tiers of workers, with those who come into the office less frequently relegated to lower status.
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The way individuals, teams, and organizations work has fundamentally changed since the pandemic began. This shift in how teams operate has given rise to the accelerated adoption of collaboration software, which saw a 32% increase in year-on-year revenue globally in 2020 according to an IDC white paper.
This article originally appeared on Inc. As plans to reopen offices shift and evolve, many executives are grappling with what their future remote or hybrid work policy will be. Some companies have laid down the law from the top, while others have adopted a more bottoms-up approach—giving significant authority to individual managers to decide their individual team’s policy.
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