Agencies face a post-pandemic cultural reckoning
As parts of Australia emerge from lockdown, the test now comes to see what lessons the WFH era has offered, writes Five by Five Global managing director Matt Lawton.
Remember when we first started working from home back in early 2020? There’s a nagging concern in my head that a return to normalised working for agency staff heading back to the office will be equally weird. (What if that new team member hired over Zoom turns out to be a bit of a dick in real life?)
Despite it being the thing a lot of us have been longing for, will it all be as rosy as we remember it? How long will it be before we realise the shitty commute is shittier than we remember it and long for the days when we rolled out of bed five minutes before a meeting and ate breakfast at lunchtime?
Anyway, we have bigger problems brewing that relate to culture – now is the time we get to find out if we actually ever had one.
