Work 2026: AI Adoption, Curiosity, Continuous Learning | Work 20XX Ep56

The biggest reason for hybrid ... when I talk to execs, the bottom line is really recruitment and retention - Nick Bloom

Companies often pay a premium for additional agility, the ability to pivot when things get tough. Radious allows that agility, flex up or down based on requirements for office or meeting space - Amina Moreau

'Well, how do we figure out which companies are hybrid and in what capacity?' Funny enough, not only did we not know the answer to that question, but we figured out that few people knew the answer to that question. That data just wasn't available, and it was important to a lot of different people. - Rob Sadow

The icing on the cake: Employees who say that the teams that they work on have very clearly established norms for not just where and when, but how the work is done ... are almost three and a half times more likely to agree that your work culture is positive. Phil Kirschner

The biggest difference from last year is that organizations are making some decisions, is that there is absolutely a parting of the seas happening.

The data show that people who have flexibility in where and when they work are actually more connected to their teams than those that are five days a week in the office. It says, I trust you. And nothing builds connection like trust in the first place.

You're able to consume that information understand where somebody else might be coming from, and then you can incorporate that into your own thinking, which to me is one of the most powerful aspects of LinkedIn, is just having that access to those new ideas - Andreas Hoffbauer

It's episode 13 and I'm a little bit superstitious, not super superstitious. I do knock on wood now and then, and I never mention lack of traffic until I reach my destination, but I'm never quite sure how superstitious the guest might be. So for episode 13, we're just going to go solo. - Jeff Frick

In the federal government, it's been a mandate since 2000 that every federal worker is supposed to work from home to the maximum extent possible. It's for continuity of operations in case, say, a pandemic hit and people weren't able to go to work. - Kate Lister