Future workplace will be work from home-office hybrid

MUMBAI: The pickup in the Covid vaccination drive has encouraged several organisations to raise queries with consultants on whether the process of returning to office can begin. However, what’s increasingly becoming clear – and large companies are setting an example – is that a ‘hybrid’ workplace is going to be the way forward.

What set the tone of this trend is a LinkedIn post by Unilever CHRO Leena Nair, where she said, “For all the sadness the pandemic has brought and is still bringing, one thing I hope we can take from this is the flexibility it has brought to businesses and to people. It would be dreadful to return to the way so many of us were working – 40-hour weeks, long commutes.”