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Working from home AND from the office? Experts explain how to make hybrid working work for you

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Looks like hybrid work is here to stay, but how to find a balance between working in the office and from home? (PHOTO: Gallo Images / Getty Images)
Looks like hybrid work is here to stay, but how to find a balance between working in the office and from home? (PHOTO: Gallo Images / Getty Images)

It was actually just madness – a crazy way of operating that we all bought into even though there was so much about it that didn’t make sense. 

That’s how one productivity expert describes the days of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic to get to work in the morning then wasting more time sitting on gridlocked highways to get home in the afternoon. 

It took a pandemic to expose the “dysfunctional relationship” we had with our workspaces, says productivity expert Bruce Daisley. “Commuting for an hour each way to sit at your desk answering emails – in hindsight that looks like an act of collective lunacy,” says Daisley, who was previously vice president of Twitter’s European division.

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