There are many confluent factors that will influence any organisations’ decision whether to retain the office as the core of their employee engagement construct.

But abandoning the office (and ‘office work’) will not be possible for most organisations unless they abandon existing measures of employee value/productivity - anchored as they are in inputs and outputs - and replace them with measures designed to assess, align and reward employee value creation and productive effort to achieve advantage or excellence throughout its’ value chain.

“Even before coronavirus struck, the reign of the office had started to look a little shaky. A combination of rising rents, the digital revolution and increased demands for flexible working meant its population was slowly emigrating to different milieux. More than half of the Ameri­can workforce already worked remotely, at least some of the time. Across the world, home working had been rising steadily for a decade. Pundits predicted that it would increase further. No one imagined that a dramatic spike would come so soon.”

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