BBC Interview: The future of work (and work from home) and commercial property

FINANCE MARK with Dr Mark Humphery-Jenner, PhD
6 May 202106:30

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Q & A

  • Quel pourcentage des entreprises britanniques interrogées par la BBC envisagent d'adopter un modèle de travail hybride ?

    -86% des entreprises (43 sur 50) ont indiqué qu'elles envisageaient d'adopter un modèle de travail hybride.

  • Combien de jours par semaine les employés sont-ils encouragés à travailler depuis leur domicile dans le modèle de travail hybride mentionné ?

    -Les employés sont encouragés à travailler depuis leur domicile deux à trois jours par semaine.

  • Quel impact le travail hybride aura-t-il sur l'espace de bureau nécessaire selon les entreprises ?

    -Il est estimé qu'avec le travail à domicile trois à quatre jours par semaine, les entreprises auraient besoin de 20% d'espace de bureau en moins.

  • Quelles sont les préoccupations concernant les impacts à long terme du travail à distance sur les entreprises ?

    -Les préoccupations incluent l'impact sur la culture d'entreprise, la collaboration, la formation et le développement des employés, particulièrement dans les industries créatives et publicitaires.

  • Comment le travail à domicile affecte-t-il les commerces locaux et les cafés près des bureaux ?

    -Ces commerces subissent un impact négatif en raison de la réduction significative du nombre de personnes venant au bureau, ce qui diminue la clientèle.

  • Quel est le taux de personnes travaillant à domicile en Australie selon l'enquête mentionnée ?

    -En février 2021, environ 41% des personnes travaillaient au moins un jour depuis leur domicile, contre 24% un an auparavant.

  • Quelle proportion des Australiens souhaite continuer à travailler depuis chez eux dans le futur ?

    -Environ 47% des personnes s'attendent à continuer à travailler depuis chez eux à l'avenir.

  • Quels sont les avantages et les inconvénients du travail hybride pour les employés plus jeunes ?

    -Les employés plus jeunes pourraient souffrir davantage de la réduction de la collaboration et avoir des difficultés à établir des connexions professionnelles essentielles.

  • Quelle est la position de Jamie Dimon, PDG de JP Morgan, sur le retour au bureau ?

    -Jamie Dimon souhaite que les employés reviennent au bureau dans un futur proche pour favoriser la collaboration.

  • Comment les entreprises et les employés équilibrent-ils les désirs de flexibilité et le besoin de collaboration ?

    -Les entreprises et les employés cherchent un équilibre entre le désir de flexibilité du travail à domicile et le besoin de collaboration en personne, en adoptant probablement des modèles de travail hybrides.

Outlines

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🏢 L'Avenir du Travail Après la Pandémie

À mesure que nous sortons de la pandémie, les grandes entreprises du Royaume-Uni envisagent un avenir du travail hybride, combinant le télétravail et la présence en bureau, selon une enquête de la BBC. Quarante-trois sur cinquante entreprises ont adopté ce modèle, permettant aux employés de travailler de chez eux deux à trois jours par semaine, tandis que quatre autres considèrent cette possibilité. Cette transition soulève des questions sur l'impact sur les travailleurs, les entreprises et les villes. Les employeurs et les employés doivent s'adapter à de nouveaux modes de collaboration tout en gérant l'espace de bureau de manière efficace. De plus, le télétravail présente des défis particuliers pour ceux qui n'ont pas accès à une technologie adéquate, à une connexion Internet fiable ou à un espace de travail calme. Les industries créatives, en particulier, s'inquiètent des répercussions à long terme sur la culture d'entreprise et la formation des employés. À mesure que le paysage de travail évolue, nos villes pourraient également connaître d'importants changements, avec moins de bureaux construits et plus de conversions d'espaces de bureau en logements.

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🌏 Impacts Hétérogènes du Travail Hybride

Le travail hybride, combinant le travail à domicile et au bureau, est devenu la norme en Australie, un pays où la pandémie est relativement maîtrisée. Une enquête de l'Australian Bureau of Statistics indique qu'en février 2021, 41 % des personnes travaillaient au moins un jour par semaine depuis chez elles, une augmentation significative par rapport à l'année précédente. La majorité des travailleurs apprécient cette flexibilité, bien que les réactions soient mitigées sur l'avenir du télétravail. Les jeunes employés, en particulier, pourraient souffrir de cette réduction des opportunités de collaboration et de développement professionnel. Des leaders d'entreprise, comme Jamie Dimon de JP Morgan, prévoient un retour au bureau pour favoriser la collaboration. Les entreprises doivent trouver un équilibre entre le désir de flexibilité des employés et la nécessité de collaboration, tout en prenant en compte les économies potentielles liées à la réduction de l'espace de bureau nécessaire.

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Transcripts

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we start with the future of work as we

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emerge

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from the pandemic because some of the

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uk's biggest employers have told the bbc

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they don't plan to bring staff back to

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the office

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full time 43 out of 50 firms told us

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they would embrace

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a mix of home and office working with

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staff encouraged to work from home

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two to three days a week another four

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said they're keeping the idea of hybrid

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working under review

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what will it all mean for workers

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companies and cities

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ben thompson reports back in the office

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after 14 months at home i took on my

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role

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in march of 2020. it was kind of a

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baptism by pandemic

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for monica who started her new job just

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as the crisis began

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getting back to her desk is a welcome

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change from the now

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familiar distractions of home home

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schooling for a 12 year old with a

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husband

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who's an architect and works full-time

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at home also is certainly

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caused some challenges for us now we're

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reconfiguring so it's it's a healthy

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percentage of

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working from home and a healthy

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percentage of being in the office

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it means employers have to make some big

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decisions

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about how and where their staff will

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work

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making the most of the new flexibility

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without stifling teamwork

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and collaboration we're never going to

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go back to working the way we used to

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work

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people are working from home three to

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four days we probably need 20 percent

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less space

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but we're not going to do that if

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everyone's working from home on mondays

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and fridays

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so we're going to have to sort of manage

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that i think quite carefully

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but as well as the impact on officers

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what about the shops and

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cafes that cater to commuters we rely

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really heavily on on the office trades

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um there is locations that have 5 000

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people only 140 people came to the

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building

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so most of people working from home or

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maybe just once a week

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coming and that makes it really

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difficult

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working from home isn't for everyone

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especially those without access to the

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right technology or reliable internet

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or even a quiet place to work but does

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it also depend on where in the country

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you live is london the capital with its

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long commutes and high house prices

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different to elsewhere where less time

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and money is spent on commuting

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and property is more affordable working

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from home

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may be just one of the enduring changes

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brought about by this pandemic

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i worry about the long-term impact on

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the enterprise on our culture on

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collaboration on how we train people on

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how we develop people you know

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advertising and creative industries it's

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something you learn from your colleagues

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and you can

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only do that really if you're around

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them in an office

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fewer offices are being built many

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existing ones could be converted

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to flats and as businesses and their

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staff

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adjust to the new normal our towns and

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cities

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could look very different ben thompson

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bbc news

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in london well let's talk about what's

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been going on

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in australia because with the pandemic

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they're relatively under control

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offices have been open for almost a year

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so has the hybrid system

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taken off there let's go live to sydney

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to talk to mark

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humphrey jenner associate professor of

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finance at the university of new south

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wales

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uh good to talk to you again uh what is

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happening in australia what is the norm

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now well thanks for having me it's good

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to be with you

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at the moment hybrid working really is

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the norm in sydney at the moment

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at least in many areas so for example

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the australian bureau of statistics

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surveyed people and funded about 41 of

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people had been working at least

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one day from home in february 2021.

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this was up from around 24 about a year

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ago

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so we're seeing a significant increase

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in the significant shift

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toward people working from home and this

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isn't necessarily unpopular

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so a majority of people did actually

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want to work from home at least for

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one or two days a week and we're seeing

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according to the australian bureau of

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statistics

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around 47 of people expected this to

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continue into the future

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and about eight percent of people

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thought work from home would actually

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increase in the future although

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admittedly 11

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thought it would decline so very much

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hybrid hybrid uh

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work is very much what is happening in

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australia at the moment

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notwithstanding covert being under

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control

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and this could be because of the

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significant tail risk associated with

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one covet event

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so australia responds very severely and

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quite rapidly toward one even one covert

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incident

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and this creates a significant risk for

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businesses if even one of their

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employees

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shows up with covert and hence the

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significant caution

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many companies have shown and also as

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well if we think

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long term we could be facing another

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pandemic

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in years to come of another of another

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nature and so businesses have to be

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ready and prepared for every eventuality

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presumably

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but at the same time it's important as

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we heard in

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in ben's report for people to be

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together to

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you know be alongside one another in

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terms of development culture that kind

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of thing

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that's absolutely true so we're going to

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see i guess heterogeneous

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impacts on people so for example for

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more senior employees

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who perhaps already have those

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connections already know people at work

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already have a broad a broad smattering

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of people they know

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they're going to be less affected to

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some extent in that respect

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of course they don't need to go out and

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build those connections

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younger employees though will clearly be

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more effective because they're going to

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suffer a lot more

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from the reduction in collaboration so

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we can see some negative

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impacts so jamie dimon the head of jp

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morgan

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said that he expected people to be back

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in the work back in the workplace in the

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near future

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telling us that he really wants people

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to get back so the collaboration

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can continue occurring that said people

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do like some of the flexibility

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so we're going to have to see a happy

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medium between the flexibility

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associated with working from home

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and the need for collaboration and

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there'll probably be some form of

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balancing out

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at least in the near future as companies

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try to cost safe

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by reducing square meterage while still

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balancing our employees desires

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okay mark humphrey jenner we're going to

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have to leave it there but we appreciate

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your thoughts on this subject