Commentary: Workers only return to office for the friendships and fellowship

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Persuading staff to return to the office, without sacrificing the inclusivity of Zoom and the advantages of working from home, is hard, says the ...

As employers contemplate how to accommodate the flexible, post-pandemic needs of their vastly more privileged white-collar staff, they talk increasingly about how to “entice” people to return.

Physical infrastructure is only one necessary ingredient for productive work, though. The New York Times took a look last week at how Google has been preparing for the future. Visitors were confronted by a customised Mercedes MaxiMog SUV, complete with secure global communications , a sleeping deck, and kitchen and bathroom “pods”, all of which would have made Fern’s nomadic existence much more comfortable.

 

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