Why RTO Mandates Fail: Trust, Data & the Future of Hybrid Work with Brian Elliott
Jane Young Host
Brian Elliott Guest
Workplace leaders
HR & People leaders
Leaders managing hybrid teams
“You can’t just say ‘trust’ — but if you pair it with accountability and dependability, it works. It’s about reinforcing the behaviours that make trust real.”
Brian Elliott
Exec @ Charter, CEO @ Work Forward, Publisher @ Flex Index, Advisor, speaker & bestselling author
RTO mandates are up 77%, but actual attendance has only increased 2%. So what’s really driving workplace success in the hybrid era?
In this episode of Workplace Visionaries, we sit down with Brian Elliott — former VP at Slack, Executive Leader of Future Forum, and author of “How the Future Works” — to unpack what the data actually tells us about hybrid work, trust and performance.
We explore why command-and-control is making a comeback, what separates high-performing hybrid teams from struggling ones, and why “just trust people” isn’t enough without the right systems in place.
KEY TOPICS:
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The real data behind RTO mandates vs. actual attendance — and what it means for hybrid strategy
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Why employee monitoring backfires and destroys performance
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The four principles that make distributed teams thrive
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Flexibility schedules as the missing piece of hybrid work (and how to apply them)
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How executive visibility and proximity bias drive poor decisions — and how to counter them
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Jane Young
Jane Young is the host of the Workplace Innovators podcast and Future of Work Lead at HubStar. She writes and speaks about the future of work and workplace technology, exploring what helps hybrid and distributed teams thrive, from culture and collaboration to leadership and the employee experience. She’s particularly interested in how technology is reshaping the way we work and lead.
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