I read the CIPD’s Flexible and Hybrid Working Practices 2025 report yesterday. It’s a really useful summary with loads of data points to help inform hybrid working decisions. What gave me cause for concern was the impact on learning. The best workplace learning is culture-enabled. If we’re mandating attendance over experience, we’re reinforcing presenteeism over… Read More Why Flexible Working Needs Flexible Learning
I’ve been hearing more noise recently about returning to the office. The pressure being put on people to return to the workplace is increasing significantly, although the research tells us return to office mandates impact performance negatively and demotivate employees. I’m hearing lots of organisations selling it as people wanting to get back together for… Read More The return
The April 2022 research from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes identifies the 3 key reasons people feel are benefits of going back to an office (at least occasionally): Face to face collaboration Socializing Better equipment I don’t think people are being honest with answer number 1 by the way – I think they… Read More Why you need to go back to the office
I saw an article from the Harvard Business Review last week trying to frame the argument around what the optimal workplace would look like. Do we ask what the optimal learnplace might be? And wouldn’t the answer be ‘it depends’?
As promised yesterday, the next question that Serena Gonsalves-Fersch, FLPI and I wanted to answer at the Whatfix :SCALED event last week is below: Can you help\walkthrough us with a Hybrid Learning plan that you have build & its learnings? Senthil Raghavan It’s impossible to craft a complete plan here – not knowing the context or topic makes it… Read More Hybrid planning