What the Science Tells Us About How To Succeed With a Hybrid Remote Strategy

Most organizations will emerge from the pandemic with a new attitude toward remote work but few will adopt an all in-office or all remote strategy. In this session, Kate Lister, President of Global Workplace Analytics will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of a mixed remote/in-office work model with Dr. Sally Augustin, Principal at Design With Science, and Terri Griffith, the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and Vice President of ISSIP.

Terri Griffith, Ph.D., holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

Terri Griffith, Ph.D., holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and is Vice President of ISSIP, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals. Terri helps people and organizations accelerate performance by reinventing practices for both the short and long term. She spent two decades in the Silicon Valley and, in 2012, was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri brings evidence-based leadership and innovation to organizations ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100. She shares these ideas through books, academic publications, terrigriffith.com, and freelance work (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review). Her most recent research takes on a “bottom-up” approach to automation, including artificial intelligence. 

Sally Augustin, Ph.D., Principal, Design With Science

Sally Augustin, Ph.D., is a practicing environmental psychologist and a principal at Design With Science. She integrates science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical outcomes/experiences. Her clients include design firms, manufacturers, service providers, trade organizations, design user groups, and others, worldwide. Sally is also the editor of Research Design Connections, which reports and synthesizes the findings of recent and classic research in neuroscience, cognitive science, and other social sciences that designers can apply in their work—in everyday language. Augustin is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the author of several books, and her work has been discussed in publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Kate Lister, president, Global Workplace Analytics

Kate Lister is president of Global Workplace Analytics, a research-based consulting firm that has been helping communities and organizations optimize the employer, employee, and environmental outcomes of flexible and distributed work for more than a decade. Her perspectives on how Covid-19 will change the way people work are among the most widely quoted in the world and have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and dozens of other respected news outlets. She was one of only three witnesses invited to testify before a U.S. Senate committee on the expansion of telework in government post-Covid-19. Kate leads the research efforts for Workplace Evolutionaries, curates the WE:Brief, and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board.