As Israel goes, so goes the world -- which pretty much tells you jwho is behind the entire agenda:
"Boston employers are embarking on a grand experiment by shifting their offices to a hybrid model; CEOs are taking a trial-and-error approach as they gradually bring workers back this year" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, April 27, 2021
We are all the victims of the "grand experiment" that is CVD-19 and the genetic therapy called vaccines.
A grand experiment is about to take place in office buildings across Greater Boston, as many businesses begin reopening their offices to employees with newfound expectations around working from home.
It already has, for the last 14 months now with no end in sight.
What that means isn’t quite clear, but a soon-to-be-released survey of about 50 large corporate members of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable, conducted by McKinsey & Co., confirms that the typical routine has been turned on its head. Pre-pandemic, 90 percent of members expected employees to show up in person five days a week, while 10 percent had some form of a “hybrid” model.
Post-pandemic? Those numbers will flip.
The potential for real estate cost savings is huge. About 40 percent of the Roundtable members expect to shrink their local office footprints. Many companies are moving to smaller spaces or subleasing large sections of their offices. The amount of sublease space on the market in the city of Boston has set a new record as a result, according to real estate brokerage Colliers.
There is now double the office space for rent in Bo$ton, and I'm later told BJ’s Wholesale Club added nearly 5,000 employees last year to keep up with the demand for groceries and other household staples amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but in one respect the chain is shrinking: its new headquarters in Marlborough would be one-third smaller than its current one, thanks in part to a greater mix of remote work, known as a “hybrid” model, after the pandemic ends.
The Roundtable and Massachusetts High Technology Council are working with McKinsey to study the future of work. So is Governor Charlie Baker: The administration last month hired the consulting firm for $1.6 million to report back on what the state’s workforce patterns will look like after the pandemic is over. (The Baker administration is another major employer that recently said it is moving many workers to “hybrid mode” and shrinking its office footprint.)
They had to kick loot to McKinsey for that?
Bryan Hancock, a Washington-based partner at McKinsey who leads its talent work, said many employers have noticed that remote work has helped even the playing field between headquarters employees and those who work in other offices. It has also allowed workers to be recruited from anywhere in the country — of particular benefit to companies located far from tech and innovation hubs such as Boston or San Francisco.
With many employers not expected to bring workers back in full force until September, bosses still have some time to figure out everyone’s schedule — and to watch what the early adopters do.
By September, the new flu season will have arrived and we will be buried in variants.
Jill Larsen, chief people officer at Boston software firm PTC, knows her company will be shifting to a hybrid model as its 6,700 employees return to the office. Its experiment will begin in late May at its 250-person office in Israel, a country where most adults are vaccinated. The PTC workers there will be expected in the office two or three days a week, and will need either a proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test, as required by Israeli law. Managers may ask employees to show up on certain days of the week, depending on meeting schedules or other activities that require an in-person presence.
Those that refuse will literally be Palestinians, and that has been the plan all this time. Enslavement of the world with that kind of treatment meted out for all.
(Btw, the fact that the above link to Palestinians is my World lead is not lost on me; it means the nationali$t Zioni$t wing has lost and Netanyahu is being shown the door as not even a war with Iran can save him. That avenue has been blocked and even the British are bailing on him. HRW, btw, is a $oro$-backed outfit and their allegedly scathing report carries significance as to who is on top in the great power game of our time, with bankers and those whose names you never or rarely see in the pre$$ playing both sides.
Of course, now that Blinken has left the region the coverage of the Israeli war crimes that left Gaza in ruins has gone with him, and he thinks the cease-fire offers a chance to “make a pivot to building something more positive” as the Associated Press pushes the lie that Hamas, an Islamic militant group, seized power from forces loyal to the internationally backed Palestinian Authority in 2007 when they WON ELECTIONS and none have been held since. Nevertheless, his visit was about boosting President Mahmoud Abbas of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority as they try to help him reassert his authority’s power and sphere of influence after Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007 (there they go again) and though deeply unpopular at home, he is seen internationally as the representative of the Palestinian people and a key partner in the long-defunct peace process. Talk about hitching your star to a losing horse who spews hollow words)
PTC will survey employees to gauge their sentiments, in part to help guide the firm’s return to the office in the United States starting in July.
“We’re using that as a pilot, to see what we learn [and] to make sure we’re prepared as we start to roll out to other countries,” Larsen said.
It sounds offensive, but we are all Palestinians now -- or soon will be.
At Providence-based Citizens Financial Group, chief executive Bruce Van Saun said the company’s 11,000 non-branch employees will be expected to spend a minimum of one day a week in the office starting on June 1.
“We’re going to bring it back gradually,” Van Saun said. “We still value the office experience. It’s still important for culture and collaboration and mentoring young people, but we’re not going to jam everybody.”
He hopes the offices will gradually fill, but is allowing for some flexibility. One idea he’s considering: allowing workers who come every day to have a designated desk, while those who show up only once a week will need to check in to a temporary desk.
The concept has already been embraced by Cambridge marketing software firm HubSpot: A designated desk awaits those who want to come into an office three or more days a week, while those who come in less frequently will be allocated a “hotel desk” but will also receive an at-home desk setup.
HubSpot chief people officer Katie Burke has been fielding questions from other companies about the hybrid shift. So she wrote a blog post last month, answering some of the queries.
At financial services giant State Street Corp., most employees will start coming back in September, but chief executive Ron O’Hanley said his vaccinated senior managers could return much sooner, perhaps within the next two months.
Eventually, O’Hanley expects State Street will design its new corporate headquarters, due to open on Congress Street in downtown Boston in early 2023, around what the executives learn.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink what’s the nature of work and what’s the nature of the office, and why you go to the office,” O’Hanley said. “I think it’s an exciting time to think about how work gets done.”
Cue the music, and that show will have to be removed or is it a disingenuous mind f**k?
See on TV and you imagine that is still the reality?
I don't think I will be coming back in anymore.
UPDATE:
They spent five years studying the combination of remote and in-person work to see what it takes to do it right?
As if they knew CVD was coming?
