Minimum Office | The Workplace Has Been Pulled Inside Out
And companies need to give workers better support
In Digitally Transformed: CIOs Take Stock of Covid-19 Era, Francesco Tinto gives the perfect case for minimum office as the new baseline:
Remote now, remote forever? “We learned that we can work remotely but we also are learning that we need to have interaction, physical interaction. We sometimes need to be in the same office having the possibility to create in the same room. So it will be a mix. But we will never go back fully in the office and we will learn how to be more flexible,” said Francesco Tinto, Global CIO at Walgreens Boots Alliance.
But there are signs that rank-and-file workers are not getting the support they need from their management, either to help better use the technologies we have all come to depend on, or support for their well-being and career advancement.
On-sites are the new off-sites.
HP conducted a survey across the United States (1000 workers) and Western Europe (5000 workers), and less than half of those surveyed say they are receiving ‘continuous support’ on critical work technologies.
