Think Your Hybrid Workforce is Procrastinating? It Could be a Sign That You've Overlooked This Critical Management Technique.Are managers' concerns about procrastination among their hybrid workforce justified? The story is more complex than it seems.

Managers often complain about hybrid employeeprocrastinationresulting in missing deadlines and task delays, when compared to their in-office colleagues.Researchby Microsoft, which surveyed 20,000 people and analyzed trillions of Microsoft 365 productivity signals, finds that 85% of leaders believe the shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are beingproductive.

As a result, many managers resent having to meet the desires of employees forflexibilityin this tight labor market; as companiescontinueto make job cuts and employers gain greater leverage, they want to force employees back to the office.