Take the heat out of the hybrid working debate | Letter

The benefits of working from home can vary according to the nature of the work and structure of the team, writes Prof Chris Rowley

Thank you for your report (Hybrid working makes employees happier, healthier and more productive, study shows, 16 June), which helps to widen the debate on the impacts of post-Covid working from home (WFH) to include those difficult-to-measure areas, not just of productivity but also other aspects of work, such as happiness, health and wellbeing.

However, one problem is that it is not so simple, as it depends on what is meant by such an elastic concept as WFH. Rather than a simple either/or binary divide of WFH versus working in the office, we need to calibrate work on a spectrum, allowing more blended, mixed or hybrid forms. WFH could be contingent on thinking about answers to three key questions about the work.

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