Offices may go hybrid but donât bank on flexitime Lucy Meakin Save Share Fourteen months after the coronavirus confined the worldâs office-workers to their homes, companies are embarking on another great experiment â how to get their teams back together, in-person, at least some of the time. Itâs a task that is briefly uniting the titans of global finance and leaders of nimble start-ups, all of whom are having to plan for staff coming in two or three days each week, at least for now. Driven in some places by COVID-19 concerns and in others by a desire to embrace workplace change, hybrid work is the new centre-ground â at least in the short term.