# Is there a perfect solution?

- **Episode:** [237](https://agents.truthliesandwork.com/episodes/237.md) (2025-10-02)
- **Type:** panel-interview
- **Tags:** workplace solutions, hybrid, future of work
- **Time:** 13:32–15:27 (start 812s)
- **Listen:** [https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=812](https://truthliesandwork.com/237?t=812)

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[13:32] Alanah Mitchell: Wow
[13:33] Ina Purvanova: of the workforce. So that's, you know, a good 2/3 of the workforce are now aligned, but that is happening when people know what's expected of them. And so to go back to the idea of what's a perfect solution, the perfect solution is just to know what you want to do and to communicate it very clearly and to make sure that your actions or what we call implementation tactics actually match your work I remember one interview that we did where an employee was in a comp—
[14:06] Alanah Mitchell: working for a company that wanted everybody in the office, right? And this employee was just every day counting all the tasks that they did and how unnecessary it was that she was physically there. So she just would, you know, I did this, this, and this, and none of them necessitated me being in the office. So I definitely think Yes, there's not a perfect solution. But the thing is that you really have to pay attention to if your employees are feeling like that employee did, um, and feeling like probably that task that they— the task that they were doing could have been done somewhere else, and she really wanted to be doing them somewhere else. So maybe you want to accommodate that, or maybe it's not the right fit, right? But I also, I get nervous if, if every company is picking their strategy and then every company— and then every employee is picking their preference and working for a company with that preference. Have we like negated all diversity of employees and thought that we just have the same similar types of people and the same similar types of organizations? Like, that would be a challenge too. So I think it's just important to recognize there are different choices that can be made. There are different preferences. Those shift over time, which I illustrated in my own example, but you just have to pay attention to it and make sure you're, you know, adjusting as needed