What does hybrid mean?

- So what does hybrid even mean? We've all been talking about hybrid working situations for months, but we don't have a common definition and everyone is just using the word. So let's start with the definition, right? So hybrid simply means a thing made by combining two different elements together or something like a mixture. So think about the way work used to be. Pretty much everyone came to the office every day, Monday to Friday, right? I think about how it's been for the last number of months. It's been pretty much everybody working remotely. So hybrid is somewhere between those, not everybody in the office, not everybody remote, something else bringing those two elements of where we're working together into something new. Well, because there's more than one way to do it, let's think about what the different types of hybrid might be. I think there are really six different types. First is, organizational choice. The organization says, these jobs need to be in, and these jobs can be remote. Second is, personal choice. This is where individuals can say, hey, I'd rather come to the office and work. I enjoy my commute to separate my work from my life. And others say, hey, I just assumed work from home. And that is what we'll call personal choice. Everyone gets to decide for themselves. Next, the flexible option, where everyone comes to work some days, maybe not everyone is there, but everyone comes some days you've got a desk you come to it's like the old days two or three days a week. Next is what we'll call hoteling. Maybe we're going to reduce the office space, or we're not going to add to it as we add to the team. And so no one is there all of the time. And when you're there, you might find yourself in a different location from one time to the next. Next, we'll call in-person sometimes. We'll all be together once in a while, maybe it's once a week or once a month, or once a quarter, maybe it's for special events or for certain types of meetings or project kickoffs, whatever that might be it's everybody but only once in a while. And then lastly, we'll call something else. We've covered most of the ground, chances are you'll be in one of those kinds of things, but you might even mix up those options that we've just described. We'll call that something else. So there you have it, six different ways to define hybrid. We can't make a decision of what our future looks like until we've decided what our options are and now you have them.