Research finds that women across the globe have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is especially true for working mothers, who must find a delicate balance between their responsibilities at home and in the office. Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School and Director of Digital Planet, comments on the pitfalls of remote and hybrid working models, citing specific examples about the damaging effects they may cause. 

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Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, told Insider that he’s worried about a hybrid future because of the impacts it could have on employee morale, diversity, and company culture.

“Frankly, I think it’s unsustainable to have a gigantic headquarters and then a whole bunch of people dispersed around the country, around the world, and expecting that the dispersed community is going to feel equal to the ones who are at the headquarters,” he said. Unless companies make substantive changes now to hire more women and people of color and to support people who require flexibility, he said, company culture, particularly in tech, could easily become a sea of homogeneity: mainly white, unattached males who are willing and able to commute into an office every day.