Why Are We Here?: Creating a Work Culture Everyone Wants

The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation

With Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury

June 3, 2025, 8AM ET / 1PM BST / 2PM CET

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"Many leaders have strong opinions about the advantages of remote work, but Raj Choudhury has something better: strong evidence. This book contains his pioneering research on how working from anywhere can be a competitive advantage. Ignore it at your own risk." Adam Grant, author, Think Again and Hidden Potential

The last few years have been a global experiment in work arrangements, revealing that many more jobs can be done remotely—and in a distributed fashion—than previously assumed. But companies that have adopted a hybrid arrangement, where workers are required to be in the office several days a week, are missing out on the biggest advantage that remote work can offer: the ability to Work From Anywhere (WFA).

So says Harvard Business School professor Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, who has spent his career studying the future of work. In his new book The World Is Your Office, he lays out the huge benefits WFA can offer, and on June 3, he will join us to share some of these insights, doing some myth-busting along the way:

How can companies transition from weekly hybrid to monthly or quarterly hybrid work arrangements that allow for WFA?
What are the best practices of mentoring and building teams in a distributed setting?
Do those serendipitous encounters that lead to breakthrough innovations really need an office setting in order to happen or can these encounters happen elsewhere?
Does ideation need a brainstorming session, or can it happen asynchronously?

In the minds of many leaders, “work” is conflated with “the office.” There are significant challenges for remote and distributed work, but Raj counters these concerns with WFA business success stories from across industries and cultures, demonstrating that many of barriers to the WFA revolution are actually about mindset and management practices.

Indeed, for those thinking that these opportunities are only for knowledge workers, Raj will also cover cutting edge research on Digital Twins, a combination of AI, sensors, automation and WFA that allows deskless workers and blue collar worker workers to adopt flexible work practices.

And for those organizations that are partially remote but unsure how to take the next step, Raj will explain how hybrid work arrangements could be adapted to allow for WFA. Join us to learn more about WFA—and how it can become your strategy to attract and retain global talent.

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Register to confirm your place. You will receive the online link to the event in your confirmation email. You can also purchase a copy of The World Is Your Office at the discounted price of £23.00 by choosing the webinar + book/ebook ticket option. Please note the print edition can only be sent to UK residents, but the ebook is available wherever you are based.

About the speaker

Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography of Work. His research has been published widely in academic and mainstream media including BBC, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Times of India, Globe and Mail, and El Pais. Prior to academia, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Microsoft and IBM.

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