Trend #3: “True hybrid”: The new balance of in-person and remote work
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic, about 90 percent of organizations have embraced a range of hybrid work models that allow employees to work from off-site locations for some or much of the time. It’s important that organizations provide structure and support around the activities best done in person or remotely.”
School Response: “Our schoolhouse, is our sanctuary”
The large-scale failure of at home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic taught the school community all the wrong lessons. Instead of seeing the potential for developing alternative instructional delivery systems, school officialdom doubled-down on the sanctity of schoolhouse building. Granted, most of the at home learning platforms schools rolled out during the pandemic were poorly designed and poorly delivered. That does mean, however, that well-crafted at home models, ones for example the private sector uses for training, are a model of learning that, aligns well with a technologically fluent population, provides unlimited options for course offerings and specializations, personalizes the learning experience, and, most importantly, has the ability to embed students into real world scenarios with real world feedback. If there is one glaring outcome to emerge out of the COVID-19 pandemic—one which the private sector now embraces—it is location matters little in conducting business. Training, negotiations, research, business transactions, meetings—all, can be done well in an office, as well as sitting on a subway train. Our children and grandchildren get this concept. Back in main and central offices, not so much.
Alan C. Jones 