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Five myths about hybrid working

I recently co-hosted a webinar with best-selling author of Remote Work, Chris Dyer, to explore the pitfalls and assumptions around hybrid working – one of the most talked-about terms of 2021. I discussed what we should be focusing on in organisations today and dispel five myths about hybrid working.

The myths about hybrid working are:

  1. It’s all about location – it’s not, it can’t be when the work has changed so much around us.
  2. It’s all new – it’s not, we’ve been hybrid working for a while now, we just didn’t brand it that way.
  3. People are distracted at home – they’re not; they’re distracted anywhere!
  4. Everything can be recreated in a digital world – we just can’t create impromptu chats or “water cooler” moments online.
  5. It’s the answer – it’s not, and we can’t just be focusing on locations, it has to be about culture and a much broader “freedom within a framework”.

While discussing the culture and structural impact of using this model, we also provided practical and strategic advice. If you missed it, you can view the webinar in full here:

I share my thinking about the pandemic revolution in this article and talk about hybrid working in this podcast episode. If you’d like to talk about your culture and any chaos created by hybrid working, I’m happy to chat about any of these issues, please do get in touch.

About the author:
Jenni Field

Jenni Field is an expert in leadership credibility and internal communication.

Host of the popular Redefining Communications with Jenni Field podcast and author of Influential Internal Communication, and Nobody Believes You, her work as an international speaker and coach, helps leaders and their organisations become more efficient and more engaging.

After spending 13 years working inside organisations as Head of Internal Communications and Communications Director, Jenni set up the consultancy Redefining Communications to help organisations and teams use communication to go from chaos to calm.

Since 2017 Jenni has published two books, hosted two popular podcasts that discuss leadership, communication and wellbeing and conducted research into communication with deskless workers, the role of line managers and why we follow some leaders and not others.

In 2020 she was the President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and she holds qualifications and accreditations in internal communication, company directorship and facilitation.

She is an impressive speaker, inspiring leader and is globally recognised in the communication industry as a force for change in the way leaders and organisations as a whole communicate with their teams.

You can find her on LinkedIn and Instagram

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