This is a major hybrid workplace challenge

Peter du ToitI'm the founder of FutureWork IQ where I spend my time assisting businesses to improve their climate literacy so as to understand the projected impacts from the expanding climate crisis and how to adapt their workplaces in the face of these impacts.

If a hybrid team does not solve the problem articulated here, this workplace will ultimately fail, as it creates a two-tier workplace with remote workers becoming secondclass employees.

If you are not ready to cut the physical office umbilical cord and insist on a hybrid scenario this issue is solvable with one simple policy:

“If one person is on screen, everyone is on screen”

Meaning, if you are going to have a meeting where even just one person is remote, then everyone who is co-located must also be on screen.

This ensures that everyone has an equal seat at the table.