Some thoughts on corporate real estate and the workplace from Lorna Landells
Remit Consulting director, Lorna Landells
Back to the office or back to the kitchen table?
Getting people back to the office is a tired but topical subject of concern: how do we encourage them, do we need to encourage them, and what are our real motives?
In the same week, we learn that Morgan Stanley is aiming for full attendance (with inconsistent success) yet Barclays is more sanguine. We are also entertained by an editorial suggesting that the “molly-coddling” (sic) of our workforce is going too far.
Yet the hybrid model seems here to stay with all its pros and cons.
Is it mainly the older workforce who have finally recognised the shortcomings of presenteeism?
The temptation to remain in your warm and functional study looking out over the Cotswolds is at odds with those at the kitchen table and background babble for many of the other employees…