Robert Wakefield: Is hybrid working causing us to lose touch with each other?

PMI president says it is time to reclaim the humanity of our working lives

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Robert Wakefield - Face-to-face is a fundamental human need
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Robert Wakefield - Face-to-face is a fundamental human need

Robert Wakefield asks if a new way of working simply means we are just finding new ways to overload ourselves.

In the ‘bad old days' before we all discovered home-working, we turned up at the office on Monday mornings, and that's where we worked, every day of the working week. Every now and then, someone...

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