2022 will be the year when hybrid work becomes the norm and companies across the globe learn to optimize their operations to accommodate this new way of working. Implications for hybrid work are manifold, but none are more challenging than learning to lead a group of employees who are only sporadically occupying the same physical space. Throughout 2020 and 2021, leaders and employees navigated remote work successfully with good faith, extra effort, and a lot of patience. Leaders and their human resource partners should consider the last two years as practice runs because 2022 will be the year when hybrid work comes fully online. While formal policies and procedures will be in place to provide guidance, leaders will bear the brunt of making sure employees can remain productive and happy while working in this new way. Overcoming Challenges of Hybrid Work in 2022 Team-based Work and Innovation The shift from a fully remote workplace to a hybrid will allow leaders to make surgical decisions about when the team must be together in person to succeed. For example, I am working now with a leader whose team is re-building the technical architecture in support of a new workflow in a critical part of his company’s operations. Every manager in this multi-national organization will be impacted by these changes. His team of 20 engineers and product managers are in Dubai, Holland, and Mumbai. They have a total of two hours overlapping work time to sort…
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