New videoconferencing technology will be added to help in-person and remote workers feel as if they’re on a level playing field. Managers will undergo extensive training to fight against the instinct to give workers in the office preferential treatment. Ford said March 17 that 30,000 of its North American office workers would be allowed to work under a flexible hybrid model in which they are on-site for certain meetings or projects and stay home for independent work. It designated each job in the company as “resident,” “remote” or “hybrid,” with the vast majority falling into the last category. “At the end of the day we’ve proven we can work in a hybrid situation.

Source: Washington Post March 30, 2021 09:56 UTC