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Today, Hybrid Working feels different…
I’ve worked on many, many distributed teams in my career from those with a couple of people part time remote, or parts of a project offshored or maybe a head office leadership in another city with the development team here. Having a distributed team is not that unusual and it used to work okay (most of the time) but I rarely found that it worked great. Today however, I think a step change that has been building for a decade or more happened when I suspect I experienced my first proper hybrid “standup” meeting…
As in many other places in the world, here in Melbourne we had a brutally hard year but we are now in the incredibly fortunate position to be allowed back into the office (if we want to return!). One of the teams I’ve been working with for over a year now, and have never physically met, have started to return cautiously back into the main building. But only a few brave souls at the moment with the majority still scattered across, Melbourne, Queensland and India. There are two reasons in particular why I think its different now and why it is likely that this is going to be a new sort of post COVID normal…
