Hybrid work is now a design problem, not a post-pandemic policy debate

One of LawCare’s 2025 recommendations is to embed hybrid and flexible work with care, alongside active workload management and evaluation of wellbeing programmes.

BY WELLBEING DESK · MAY 13, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

One of LawCare’s 2025 recommendations is to embed hybrid and flexible work with care, alongside active workload management and evaluation of wellbeing programmes. That phrase matters because poorly governed flexibility can still reproduce overload, isolation and unclear expectations; the future-of-work task is to design flexibility around trust, recoverability and connection.

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