Author: Radostina Purvanova, Professor of Management and Organizational Leadership, Drake University

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect – even as more companies implement it

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A truce of sorts has quelled the return-to-office wars that have raged in the post-pandemic workplace. Hybrid work policies, which require some in-office work while allowing flexibility to work from home, have become commonplace. In 2023, only 20% of companies had implemented hybrid policies. That number had shot up to 38% in 2024 and to […]

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The one-size-fits-all diversity training model is broken – here’s a better alternative

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Diversity training is more effective when it’s personalized, according to my new research in the peer-reviewed journal Applied Psychology. As a professor of management, I partnered with Andrew Bryant, who studies social marketing, to develop an algorithm that identifies people’s “personas,” or psychological profiles, as they participate in diversity training in real time. We embedded […]

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US workers with remote-friendly jobs are still working from home nearly half the time, 5 years after the pandemic began

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CC BY-ND Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted office life, American workplaces are settling into a new rhythm. Employees in remote-friendly jobs now spend an average of 2.3 days each week working from home, a research team that tracks remote employment has found. And when you look at all workers – and not just […]

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How do you create a workplace that people want to work in? We embedded in a company to find out

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It’s been five years since the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 disrupted the traditional office workplace. For a while, it seemed COVID-19 killed the office. Companies are now returning to the office in ever greater numbers. As professors who have researched remote work and collaboration for decades, we have our counterarguments. But there are lessons to […]

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