BEFORE
the arrival of COVID-19 in Canada,
Thinkific employees could work
from home one or two days a week. Looking to
the post-pandemic future, that equation will
likely be inverted, says Amanda Nagy, senior
manager of people operations at Thinkific in
Burnaby, B.C.
"We're not going to be office based anymore."
With the pandemic now a year old in
Canada, the online learning company has firmly
established itself as a distributed-first team.
While Thinkific still has private offices available,
along with meeting rooms that meet all the
requirements for social distancing and safety,
Nagy says, "The way that we're fundamentally
going to be treating our office space going into
the future is looking at it more as a space to
congregate and not necessarily a space with our
open concept where people have to go into work.
"Our office space will primarily be used for
opportunities for events or to congregate or
maybe have in-person meetings, for collaborative
purposes, but not necessarily for the purposes
of working at a desk for six to eight hours a day,"
she says.
Surveys point to many more employers
embracing a hybrid approach once things return
to normal, with employees splitting their work
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