How to Get Out of the Hybrid Work Rut
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All right, so Alison, I feel like in this age of flexible work, Uh, there's still a lot of disagreement as to whether we need to be in the office or not. Yeah, I completely agree. I think within organizations, there's debate between managers and employees. I think different organizations are implementing different policies and no one knows exactly what the right thing to do is.
Right, but they feel strongly. I mean, you know, there are the managerial purists. who feel like you gotta have people in five days a week with this assumption that if we can't watch them, they're not working, right? It's sort of a trust issue. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, has everybody coming back five days a week.
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