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Nathan Dumlao
We have now spent more than a year dealing with COVID-19 in the workplace, with many of us working from remote locations, in mixed environments and living with the overall unknown from day-to-day. While working remotely or mixed between remote and in the office is nothing new for some of us, it is certainly a major adjustment for most and it seems at least in the short-term some form of this hybrid work environment is here to stay.
In the past, technology may not have been as available to help with collaboration and trust for distributed workers. We had some people on calls at 2:00 am their time while it was 6:00 pm for others on the same call, which can lead to burnout and communication gaps. But people made it work. Now, everyone seems to understand the good, bad and ugly of remote work and we have figured out how to live with it.