If all one had to judge by were the headlines in their social feeds and the major news outlets, one could easily think the great remote work experiment was a failure soon coming to an official end. Indeed, the remote and hybrid backlash came to a head around Labor Day, when several Fortune 500 CEOs, business influencers and media outlets argued how remote work wasn’t really working out, that C-suites had grown tired of accommodating it, and how corporate RTO (return-to-office) plans were about to rapidly ramp up. That’s not, however, what seems to be happening on the ground. Rather, the rates at which employees work inside or outside the office have pretty much stabilized, recurring monthly surveys suggest. Instead of abandoning remote work, organizations largely have accepted their fate in regard to remote-capable employees (RCEs) and have shifted to the next chapter of the home-and-hybrid work transition. If version one was the mad dash to get things up and running, the current v2 is more about auditing what was thrown up, optimizing It’s still a hybridized world THE STATE OF REMOTE WORK By Martin Vilaboy 44 CHANNELV ISION | SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2022 CORE COMMUNICATIONS
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