It’s a major question on many minds these days: When will the office reopen? Or rather: Will the office reopen? Different countries are in very different stages of heading back to physical workspaces (or not); in the United States, the prospect of on-premise work is inching closer as companies struggle to decide between three main models: fully in-office; fully remote; or…maybe some mix of both?

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans unpack why floppy hybrid models are doomed to fail, different flavors of creativity (that don’t rely on glass-walled conference rooms), and what the most adaptive path forward could look like.

Mentioned references:

• "Sid and GitLab": BNW Ep. 35 with Sid Sijbrandij
• Ted Rau: BNW Ep. 74 with Ted Rau
• A World Without Email, by Cal Newport
• "2003 SARS mask wearing in Hong Kong"

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