Look for Canada's P&C industry to fine-tune the hybrid workplace model over the next six months, as the country starts to ease pandemic restrictions, industry execs say.
The tinkering will involve achieving the best balance between meeting in person with clients and colleagues, while maintaining the ability to focus on getting the work done in the privacy of home.
'I think a lot of people are looking backwards and saying, 'You know, I just want to get back to what I was doing in 2019.' And I look at it quite differently,' Andrew Steen, president of Berkley Canada, said Thursday at the CIP Virtual Symposium, Pivoting with Purpose, held by the Insurance Institute of Canada.
'We have this opportunity...in the next six months [to]...capitalize on the best of two worlds.
'One is being together. We know being together is the place where creative, collaborative problem-solving happens best."
