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EORGINA IS IN no hurry to get back to the office. The 37-year-old, who works in financial services in Geneva, has been working from home for most of the past year. Doing so allowed her to skip her commute, wear tracksuit bottoms and avoid awkward conversations about her pregnancy. She is now on maternity leave but her colleagues are trickling back into the office. Meetings all still take place via Zoom; her colleagues dial in individually from their desks so those working from home do not feel excluded. But Georgina worries that, as restrictions ease, people will rush back to their pre-pandemic ways and that working from home will once again be the exception.
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The latest Microsoft Work Trend Index highlights that there have been clear positives to distributed work during COVID-19, but the negatives frame a discussion for the future.
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As we all know, the world of work has changed dramatically over the past year or so with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Distributed work, digital teams and online collaboration has become the norm for many. And as we begin to see light at the end of the tunnel, businesses everywhere are beginning to ask the question - which bits do we keep and which bits do we get rid of?
As many drift from working from home to a more hybrid model, what has been lost? And who has really, really gained? Microsoft knows things aren't good.
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