Remote Hybrid Work

“Well, first of all, we've, we've kind of migrated toward calling it something else. We call it flexible work. And in my entire time, we've utilized a flexible work approach such that You know, 12 years ago we had people...”

“We didn't make it mandatory. We made it compelling and interesting.”

“our utilization of benefits actually went way, way up, which I actually see as a positive. I know it's not always a positive for a lot of different companies, but our employees were able to fit in gym sessions, afternoon...”

“Number one was a common LMS that allowed for live side-by-side training... to approximate that live in-person training experience.”

“The challenges is, do you have enough documentation to make sure that everything can happen asynchronously? Do you make sure that your communication style is asynchronous?”

“I think the past 5 or 6 years has been really tough for all total rewards professionals. Moving from, you know, pre-pandemic when it was more status quo to having a shift during the pandemic and then to now with more of...”

“So what is a driver to bring back the employees? When we start, when you start to look back and sit back, do you want to follow the herd mentality and follow everybody else? Or you want to stay, go back and stay back and...”

“Making hybrid work successful is not about replicating the in-person experience online. It just doesn't work.”

“working in a remote environment has posed a unique challenge for my current employer. And we are constantly thinking of ways to keep our team members engaged, to find meaningful, memorable ways for them to connect, to bu...”

“You need to offer a compelling reason for them to come to that space. And that compelling reason is culture.”

“We currently have a hybrid work environment where you're 2 days in the office, 3 days off... where do you have opportunities to create experiences that when people are in their office, they're doing things like training,...”

“If you don't bring flexibility to your workforce, whatever they are on site or whatever they are working on the headquarters, you will lose a lot of candidates.”

“return to office. And I started laughing because I thought, wait, no, this is not quick and this is probably not a win for most folks.”

“Love is possible no matter what the format.”

“My last firm went against the grain quite a bit. If you look at the top AMLAW 100 firms, they're requiring their employees to come in 4 or 5 days a week. No, no questions asked. Right. Earlier in the pandemic, too, the f...”

“It has to be more intentional because we're not all in the same location all the time. Although I know the trend is starting to perhaps lean back that way, but those casual conversations and collisions you have in the co...”

“You can't, you really can't, in my opinion, build genuine and lasting connections if you are only virtual, if everything is always on a screen.”

“For the first time, traditional compensation playbooks had to be thrown out or at least flipped. Remote work blurred the boundaries, benchmarks stopped making sense and locational differences came under the spotlight. Su...”

“My team, we're all hands on deck, building out the company-wide offsite. We're an asynchronously remote company. So we invest every year on bringing everybody together from 23 different countries this year into one place...”

“I strongly believe it's less about hours that you're working, right, in an exempt population, hours that you're working, but performance and How are you delivering? And so it has to be flexibility and compatibility. So f...”

“People that work remotely ironically tend to work more because they don't have natural breaks and interruptions in the day.”

“We've lost something along the way in that connection to each other that is quite hard to get when you're completely remote.”