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By Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Should organizations be flexible and enable work from home or demand that employees come into the office? Post-pandemic, some organizations gave their employees the option to continue working remotely, but most moved to a hybrid model of two or three days per week in the office and two or three days per week working remotely.<\/p>\n

That said, more CEOs have decided to mandate that their organization\u2019s personnel come into the office five days a week again, especially in industries such as financial services and technology, with Amazon, X, AT&T, Boeing, Dell Technologies, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and J.P. Morgan Chase being the latest Fortune 500 companies to do so. However, that may hurt morale and increase turnover, not to mention impede innovation.<\/p>\n

Each of the three options has positives and negatives, complicating leaders\u2019 choices.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Wendy Smith<\/a> of the University of Delaware said that leaders need a different way to think about this issue. She noted that most organizations are trying to split the time\u2014some time at home and some time in an office. Yet that approach occasionally ends up with the worst of both worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cKey tensions between autonomy and collaboration, independence and interdependence, well-being and productivity underlie this decision,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n

Rather than frame these tensions as an either\/or, Smith argued that effective leaders see these as a both\/and. They explore how to create an approach that values the benefits of both at-home and in-office time and understand how they can benefit one another.<\/p>\n

For example, rather than split the number of work days into some sort of a hybrid schedule, leaders can strive to create valuable in-office experiences that contribute to a positive, cohesive organizational culture while being willing to be flexible when it makes sense or is necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you expect your employees to be in the office, then make sure that they come for a reason\u2014staff meetings, in-person events, networking opportunities,\u201d Smith said. \u201cMoreover, if they are home, give them the skills, technology, and opportunity to truly have autonomy over their time to the best extent possible so that they can navigate when and how they get their work done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main insight from our research is: If you shift from thinking you\u2019ve got to pick one or the other\u2014an either\/or approach\u2014and instead you value and hold these competing demands in your mind simultaneously\u2014a paradoxical both\/and approach\u2014that\u2019s when you get to a better solution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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