It's likely that the very best people and the precise type of people you need most, are the hardest people to work with. And Vice Versa. As younger people enter the workforce, this is only going to become more apparent. Pretty much all notions of work come from the command and control structure of armed forces centuries ago, tweaked for the needs of industrialists in factories 200 years ago. They needed people to be cogs in a machine, to be easily replaced, to be specialists, to be opinionless. Companies need to make the most of people, not the same of people. This means flexible working hours, working from home, embracing passions and side projects. It means people with width, and oddness, who can do 8 different things and need to. We need to accept that literally the only thing that matters is outputs, not process or location, or presenteeism, or even how hard you worked. I'm not saying you need to employ hard people, far from it, I'm saying working with and around the best people will be hard.
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