Why Hybrid Policy Is Not Workplace Strategy
CHROs, COOs, leadership teams
Why do day-count policies fail as workplace strategy?
A hybrid policy is one variable in a system of demand, supply, rhythm and value. Day counts produce attendance without overlap — the signature failure — because they answer 'how many days' without asking 'for what'.
- The policy reflex
- Attendance without overlap: the evidence
- Presence value at three levels
- From policy to presence logic
- Hybrid coordination research
- Overlap and team performance studies (Bloom et al.)
References Balance: determining when presence creates value.
Balance
Balance determines when physical presence creates organisational value — replacing attendance arithmetic with an evidence-based presence logic.
Hybrid Balance
The translation of presence-value evidence into hybrid work principles, attendance logic, team agreements and their capacity, policy and leadership implications.
Hybrid Work Review
The periodic test of the presence logic against observed reality — whether the principles, team agreements and overlap commitments produce the value they claimed.