Alexandra Samuel
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163 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2021
last heard Sep 2023
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Half of the workforce is in jobs that absolutely have to be done onsite.
And to some extent, those are jobs that skew a little bit towards the bottom of the income ladder, a lot of service roles, blue collar roles.
But there are also, you know, doctors and nurses and lots of other folks in professional roles who also need to do their work on site.
And what I see in organization after organization is that the people who were working on site, particularly the people who worked on site all through COVID-19,
are not super impressed to hear their colleagues who have been working remotely complain about the terrible challenge of having to come into the office two days a week or how awful it is to have to be in the office on Friday.
But the other part of it that's really challenging is, frankly, from a customer point of view.
Do I know whether I can get service on a Friday?
Do I know if I can ask my vendors to do something for me on a Friday?
That ambiguity is a challenge for everybody.
It's pretty clear that in the universe of people who can work remotely, Friday is the preferred day to work from home.
I do see some folks talking about how they actually love the quiet of the Friday office and appreciate the opportunity to have some focused work time there.
In the office because there are fewer interruptions.
I mean, that's exactly what so many people like about working remotely.
You know, ghost town Friday in some ways is the best of both worlds for those employees because they get the quiet of home and the amenities of the office.
Yes, that would absolutely be the easiest answer if you run an organization that can succeed on the strength of very abundant, low-skilled talent.
If you have a workforce full of widgets who you can replace with more widgets, by all means, tell them to come into the office whenever you would like.
That's not a whole lot of organizations.
Most organizations have at least some part of the talent pool where they're competing for employees.
And it is very clear at this point that many people regard flexibility and some control over their schedule as a very fundamental factor in whether they're going to stay in their job, whether they're going to look for another job, whether they're going to demand a pay increase.
Those are folks who are going to, in many cases, want Fridays as a work-from-home day.
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