AlixPartners folks, are you guys back traveling 4 days a week or is there more flexibility for remote work?

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I was asked to travel on a project and I said no because the firm doesn’t have a vaccine mandate and nor did the client. Our policy is for everyone traveling by to be vaccinated but it is not tracked or enforced in any way, so I didn’t feel bad saying no even though the partner was not happy when I told him. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️

I’m hoping travel is minimal going forward.

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Yeah I kinda agree. We have a vaccine mandate effectively without using those words, status is tracked with proof required, you need proof to board a plane, and in the cases of cross border travel you need proof to get into a country.

At some point you’re also going to have to play the odds that there’s ‘enough’ herd immunity around you and there’s enough for you to move on and get on with it. We can’t suddenly be in 2023 wondering oh is the person sitting near me vaccinated in 2021 and did they get their two extra boosters during 2022 and if they got P or M or AZ.

The solution isn’t encouraging you to be reckless but at the same time it has to be to accept that steps needed to be taken to move on.

Your ask for travel being minimal going forward is mutually exclusive of this. Sometimes remote does not cut it and depending on which practice you’re in, remote actually makes it worse. Imagine trying to do an OEE, or a WH optimization completely remote without even seeing the place

Totally client and project dependent. I wish we were back to traveling that much.

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The idea is to be flex (2-3 days away rather than 4), but this is client dependent.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been to the office one week total this year.

Did one M-Th and one M-Fri early AM. Was not too bad. Have managed two weeks remote after, let MD know that I don’t need to be here because there’s nothing that can’t be managed from base, he agreed. I offered to go again if absolutely needed to push things on, he agreed with that too but we didn’t need to exercise that option.

It’s been ok. I was so freaking productive two weeks on site it’s not even funny. Still crammed a day full of interviews and analysis but if i wanted to grab someone’s ear for a second it wasn’t a ping, or an email, a teams invite, and futile efforts to share screens. It was literally walking over asking if they had five and sorting it out. Done.

But I also valued the head down time I got at home to work by myself. Moral of the story: both can coexist perfectly well and all we’ve probably lost now is sitting on site for optics

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