Businesses hoping to expand in size—and employment—will find that employee recruiting and retention are their greatest challenges.
Managers are spread out on the question of the ideal balance of office and remote work, according to aMost analysts expect a hybrid model, in which the office is available to everyone every day, and mandatory some number of days a week. Managers seem more eager to have their workers back in the office, while many workers are much less eager.
If remote work is less productive than office work, then managers will need to balance ease of recruitment of remote workers against higher productivity of office workers. Managers will then be challenged to figure out just how much more productive office workers are, if at all. Right now many business executives are working from anecdotes and preconceptions, pretty much guessing about productivity. The best managers will use hard data when available, and good judgment the rest of the time.