With productivity on the decline in recent years and many companies transitioning to hybrid work schedules, productivity and office culture have both been at the forefront of many HR leaders’ minds.

I left the US and started my first corporate job in Paris when I was 23. Although I was in a new country, I figured office conversations and workplace dynamics would resemble those back home, just ...

Business people attending a hybrid meeting with some people in a conference room and others attending via video conferencing on a large screen. The corporate drumbeat for workers to get “back to the ...