How to strengthen your hybrid culture for the days ahead
Regardless of what’s to come, mind these four principles to maintain cohesive messaging and a supportive working environment.
How do you support a strong culture when employees are on a hybrid schedule of some days in the office and some working from home?
Before the pandemic, we could count on employees picking up a lot of the culture just by their day-to-day interactions and observations in the office. Culture spread easily from one person to another and from group to group, thanks to proximity and familiarity.
But now that we won’t have the vast majority of employees showing up in the office every day, we’ll need to make reinforcing culture a new priority. We’ll need to maximize the cultural exposure when employees are onsite and find new ways to spread culture while employees are working remotely. Here are four suggestions for how to help make that happen:
1. Weave culture throughout internal comms.
One of the most obvious solutions is to begin placing a heavier emphasis on the culture in internal communications.
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