# What this means for hybrid businesses

- **Episode:** [11](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/11.md) (2022-11-08)
- **Type:** other
- **Tags:** hybrid-work, business-strategy, cost-of-living-crisis
- **Time:** 14:38–16:22 (start 878s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/11?t=878](https://truthliesandwork.com/11?t=878)

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[14:38] Leanne Elliott: Absolutely. And I think in terms of businesses that are currently operating a hybrid model, yes, there are going to be other potential benefits of people coming to the office. Like you said, collaboration has been cited as one, knowledge sharing, and particularly amongst Newer or younger employees. And in terms of onboarding as well, you know, if you have new starters, then, then yeah, that's been cited as something that is easier to do in the office. I say cited because I think it all depends on how you handle that situation. That's a different conversation for a different day. But I think you're absolutely right that the focus needs to be the cost of living crisis. So if you're having conversations, and you should be having conversations with your employees, have one-to-ones over the next next few, you know, next few days, next few weeks. Ask them how they're being impacted by the cost of living crisis. Ask them how they are, you know, feeling financially. Point out that, you know, you've heard some research, it costs about £100 a week to work from home. Go through some calculations with them, encourage them to look at that. And equally, look at your own P&L and your own business costs and actually figuring out, you know, how many people you want in the office and the cost of that. But yeah, the focus should be on, on the employee and supporting them through the cost of living crisis, which, you know, it's, it's been around for about 12 months already. It's really starting to bite now, and I think the next 6 months are going to be really difficult for a lot of people
[16:05] Al Elliott: Definitely. So let's switch to talking about hybrid models here. So a hybrid model, first of all, can you just define a hybrid work workplace model, and then tell us what you think it means, this cost of living crisis means, for the hybrid work model