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Hybrid Work in 2025: What’s Really Going On

What’s Shifting, What’s Sticking, What’s Still a Mess

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Simone Fenton-Jarvis
Sep 16, 2025
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Hello Everybody,

Remember back in 2020 when “the future of work” meant sitting at your kitchen table with a dodgy Wi-Fi signal, Zoom fatigue, and too much banana bread?

Fast forward to 2025 and hybrid work isn’t new anymore. It’s not a pilot. It’s not a crisis fix. It’s just… work.

Ways of working are still evolving (as they should), hybrid is stabilised in some ways, and in others, it’s still messy, political, and downright confusing.

I’ve been digging into the latest research and what I’m seeing in organisations, and here are the big themes leaders can’t ignore.

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