Is it in you?

One thing we know by this point is the future of working from home is hybrid, which means some time spent in the office and some time spent at home.

The most controversial question about hybrid is how much choice you should give individual employees about how many days they work from home.

And the big change for me has been, if I look back, I thought what would be great is to let every employee choose what they wanna do, so like a menu.

If you run things forward to July, August 2021, I've spoken to hundreds of organizations and come to the conclusion that full choice isn't a good thing.

The first reason for being concerned about people choosing which days is mixed mode.

Mixed mode is this horror whereby there's six of you in a meeting, three are at home in individual Zoom boxes, and the other three are in the office in one similar sized Zoom box with their tiny heads.

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doing their homework.

Yeah.

And the loud music isn't coming out and the odd smells from your teenager's bedroom and this kind of stuff.

So yes, I think there's a kind of direct and indirect effect.

I'm not surprised.

I was going to mention a very fun kind of informative paper.

by Aruna Ranganathan who, it was called The Double Edge of Flexibility, Task Design and Gendered Focus in Remote Work.

So I think this online sales actually facilitates a little bit more price discrimination on the retail side than the traditional aspect of in-person retail shopping, which is consistent with what you're