The Hybrid Work Environment Is Here to Stay
Bart has been in ecommerce for over 20 years, and can't imagine a better job to have. He is interested in all things agile, or anything new to learn.
Project teams and project managers are faced with a new challenge that is here to stay: a hybrid work environment.
During the pandemic, project teams worked remotely, forcing major adjustments into how projects were managed and creating the need for new processes and new mechanisms to get work done. As the emergency has receded, companies of all sizes are calling their employees back into the office, or at least those who remain in the vicinity of an office. Teams that were working remotely, even if they were physically located in the same neighborhood before, now find that some of them will be working in the same building, while others will be working from wherever they happen to be.
The pre-pandemic model had teams mostly co-located, while during the pandemic teams were fully distributed; now teams are a little of both, creating challenges for the project manager both in delivering projects and keeping their teams motivated and working in the right direction. Even worse, it can create friction that didn’t exist before; team members who are located together may have different information, different relationships, or different team norms than the rest of the team.
The project manager will need to navigate this hybrid work environment for the foreseeable future —hybrid work is quickly becoming the new normal.
Certainly, a hybrid workforce has some …
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