Nicole Martin Quoted by Daily Herald

Fully virtual or hybrid? Suburban business owners weigh in

Thanks to the pandemic a great number of small businesses, including many in the suburbs, have had to revisit their remote working policies that offer the kind of flexibility most employees desire today.

So how are area businesses dealing with this challenge? And what makes the most sense — a fully virtual or hybrid model?
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Nicole Martin’s consulting firm, HR Boost, is somewhere in between hybrid and fully virtual.

“We have reduced our 4,000-square-foot office to 600 square feet in Libertyville and now all of our employees are virtual and come in only for company events or all-hands meetings,” she says.

Martin is happy the arrangement has not only benefitted employee morale but has also helped to reduce overhead.

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