“We are not in a rush to pull people back into the workplace,” says Rob Falzon, vice chair of Prudential Financial. With an emphasis on confronting worker stress and buoying company culture, Prudential helped its 20,000 US-based employees adapt to the pandemic by leveraging its online Skills Accelerator platform for employees to continue their professional development while working remotely, increasing access to mental health care, and providing extra support for juggling remote-work obstacles. Falzon joins Heather Landy, executive editor at Quartz, to discuss data from Prudential’s “Pulse of the American Worker Survey: Work in Progress—Six Months Living the Future of Work,” conducted by Morning Consult. Based on key findings, Falzon confirms that remote work does work, and suggests that the post-pandemic working environment should be a hybrid, where office walls are torn down to promote collaboration space and there’s flexibility to do individualized work at home. Presented by Prudential