Our guest blogger is Andrew Thoseby of 1st Executive Pty Ltd in Melbourne, Australia. 1st Executive is a boutique executive search, executive recruitment, interim executive and advisory firm providing custom designed people solutions for clients across a broad spectrum of industries on a local, regional, national and international basis. The firm’s recruiting activities are focused on executive, professional, technical and managerial placement for its clients. 1st Executive includes a growing interim management service in its business mix and has successfully placed interim CEOs, CFOs, sales and operational executives. Andrew is currently a member of the NPAworldwide Board of Directors. In the post below, Andrew shares his insights on how hybrid work has evolved into a three-dimensional challenge, now shaped by AI integration.
Since the Covid19 pandemic leaders have wrestled with hybrid work as a two-dimensional challenge. It has been about where work happens – home, office or both. That brought the challenge of how work gets done – managing coordination, communication, output and accountability, not to mention the sense of belonging to a workplace. The evidence is slowly building – what works?
Large-scale studies suggest hybrid work can lift retention and satisfaction without harming performance, when designed well. In developed economies such as the UK, EU, USA and Australia hybrid is no longer a bad pandemic aftertaste. It has become a structural feature of the labour market, with, in Australia 36% of employed people usually working from home (ABS, August 2025). Read the rest of this entry »
