Google’s Myth of Losing Social Capital in Hybrid Work (Wise Decision Maker Guide 71)

Greetings Decision maker,

Google recently announced its new post-pandemic hybrid work policy, requiring employees work in the office for at least three days a week. That policy goes against the desires of many rank-and-file Google employees. A survey of over 1,000 Google employees showed that two-thirds feel unhappy with being forced to be in the office three days a week, with many threatening to leave in internal meetings and public letters, and some already quitting to go to other companies with more flexible options. Google’s leadership is defending its requirement of mostly in-office work as necessary to protect the company’s social capital, meaning people’s connections to and trust in each other.

By contrast, plenty of large tech companies, such as Amazon and Twitter, are offering employees much more flexibility with extensive remote work options. The same applies to many non-tech companies, such as Nationwide, Deloitte, 3M, and Applied Materials. Are they giving up on social capital?

Not at all. What forward-looking companies discovered is that hybrid and even fully remote work arrangements don’t automatically lead to losing social capital. However, you do lose social capital if you try to shoehorn traditional, office-centric methods of collaboration into hybrid and remote work.

To learn more, check out this blog.

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“Punctuality Is Having a Moment” (article) describes the increasing emphasis placed on punctuality in our culture recently. This focus stems from many more interactions taking place online, which leave less excuses for lateness. Moreover, in-person meetings - being rarer - are treated more seriously, and lack of punctuality is seen as a worse fault than in the past.
“Waiting Games” (podcast) delves into the psychology of relief and waiting, and how we can make periods of limbo less painful.

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