How Changed Employees Can Adjust to the Post-Pandemic Workplace
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Here's your Money Briefing for Tuesday, June 15th. I'm J.R. Whalen for The Wall Street Journal. As companies begin bringing workers back, things are bound to be a lot different in the office. No, we're not talking about socially distanced desks or plexiglass partitions. Employees have gotten used to new routines and responsibilities over the past year. And coming back to the office could create some challenges for them and their bosses.
What both managers and employees need to do at this juncture is to rethink the relationship between office and remote work in a way that we just didn't because COVID happened so suddenly.
Author and WSJ contributor Alexandra Samuel has been researching this issue. We'll talk to her about it after the break.
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How will returning to the office feel different after a year of remote work?
With vaccinations on the rise, more employees are looking to bring workers back into the office. But after more than a year of working from home, you might not be the same employee you used to be. And that means you and your boss will have to adapt. So what kind of environment should you expect? And how can you work best with a manager in the brave new world of the post-pandemic workplace? I'm joined now by Alexandra Samuel. She's a data journalist and co-author of the recent book, Remote Inc., How to Thrive at Work, Wherever You Are. Alexandra, thank you for coming on the show.
Thanks so much for having me.
So, you know, Alexandra, when people come back into the office, it's probably going to feel like the first day on the job for everyone, workers and managers alike.
Yes, and I've been there and it is a big adjustment. If you've been used to working on your own or working from home, it can be really tough to suddenly have the structure and scrutiny of the office. As wonderful as it is to see your colleagues again, for those of us who have enjoyed the experience of having more autonomy online, more control over our schedule, more control over how our work gets done, it can be very hard to be back in the situation where at 9 a.m. you're expected to report for duty and follow someone else's marching orders.
And the return to the office probably means a lot of one-on-one get-to-know-you or it's-been-so-long type of meetings. Can you talk about how that dynamic between workers and their bosses is likely to have changed?
Well, it's certainly going to depend on each organization. And I think in the smartest and most adaptive organizations, the ones with strong organizational cultures where even before the pandemic, they delegated a lot of responsibility and autonomy to their workers. It's going to be very much kind of a reunion and check-in that I suspect will be as much as anything about that personal reconnection, you know, that so many of us missed in the time out of the office. In organizations where the shift to remote work was more challenging and really flew in the face of a command and control culture, I suspect that there are going to be some managers who are tempted to essentially reassert their authority.
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