Frank Weishaupt did not expect to be workshopping heavy metal album titles with me 15 minutes into a press call about his own survey data. But that’s where the conversation about Owl Labs’ 10th annual State of Hybrid Work Report landed, after I told him that what he’d put together sounded like “kind of a nightmare fuel report.”
Weishaupt, a thought leader in the field of remote work thanks to his role as CEO of the Boston-based video-conferencing company, pushed back — just a little bit. “I don’t know if I see it that way,” he said, before immediately cataloging the ingredients: job hugging, career minimalism, employees strategically “billboarding” themselves in the office one day a week while working six. “I just said a bunch of things that don’t sound really good in that mixture,” he said. “So your soup is definitely there, right?”
