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TAMPA BAY • FEBRUARY 23-24 2026

This FINAL encore experience will be unlike any other. Because like everything we do, it's been "reimagined" from beginning to end. It's not a virtual or hybrid event. It's not a conference. It's not a seminar, a workshop, a meeting, or a symposium. And it's not your typical run-of-the-mill everyday event crammed with stages, keynote speeches, team-building exercises, PowerPoint presentations, and all the other conventional humdrum. Because it's up close & personal by design. Where conversation trumps presentation. Where authentic connection runs deep. And where real connection. happens.

The Pandemic Could End Office Life

The pandemic forced even those who had never done it, to adopt the smart work which, undoubtedly, offers some advantages to users, companies, to the resolution of some general problems such as traffic, leisure, to some extent problems of pollution, etc.

The question is: will the office be another victim of Covid-19?

In a sense, the “death” of the office was long overdue. In the 1960s, the futurist Melvin Webber predicted that the world would reach a “post-city” era in which it would be possible to be on top of a mountain and maintain realistic and intimate contact in real-time with the company and colleagues. The Internet has made that future seem closer. Once the distances have been canceled, logic would like offices, and by extension cities, to become irrelevant.

Where strong ties tend to form dense and overlapping networks, the weak ties connect us to a larger and more diverse group of people.

The impression is that we are getting to this point: the jobs that once needed a shared workplace can be carried out at home as it happens during this pandemic, even if, despite the progress made in the field of communication technologies, relating oneself with colleagues remotely often proves more difficult than meeting in person. And the problem goes beyond waiting times or interruptions of any kind. As sociology teaches us, functioning societies are based not only on strong ties (close relationships) but also on weak ties (random knowledge). Where strong ties tend to form dense and overlapping networks, the weak ties connect us to a larger and more diverse group of people.

By connecting different social circles, weak bonds are more likely to improving connections with new ideas and perspectives, questioning our preconceptions and encouraging innovation and its diffusion. While on the one hand video chat or social media can help us maintain our strong ties, it is unlikely that new ones will be produced, not to mention the fact that we connect with many people outside our social circle: bartenders, transporting passengers, colleagues we don’t work with directly, and so on.

Perhaps in the future, it will be possible to imitate physical serendipity and form weak links online, but to date, online platforms seem not equipped to do so. And offices, which facilitate deeper interactions between different people, can be a particularly effective remedy.

Companies would do well, therefore, not to completely avoid offices, both for their own good (new, innovative and collaborative ideas are essential for success) and for the well-being of the society in which they operate. They could allow employees to stay at home more often, while at the same time taking action and taking steps to ensure that time spent in the office is conducive to strengthening weak ties.

Obviously, it must be understood that companies would not have an interest in keeping the costs of a structure similar to the old offices with people at home most of the time. This means designing suitable structures to enhance the ability to cultivate even weak bonds, for example, through more open and dynamic spaces, based on events and which encourage more convivial relationships, than formal ones.

The challenge is therefore to exploit the physical space so that we can descend from our isolated summits in order to strengthen even weak and occasional bonds.

I hope to have attracted the attention and the thought of so many qualified professionals who follow this extraordinary group.

Any comment is really appreciated! 

Aldo Delli Paoli
Aldo Delli Paoli
Aldo is a lawyer and teacher of law & Economic Sciences, "lent" to the finance world. He has worked, in fact, 35 years long for a multinational company of financial service in the auto sector, where he held various roles, until that of CEO. In the corporate field, he has acquired skills and held positions as Credit Manager, Human Resource Manager, Team leader for projects of Acquisition & Merger, branch opening, company restructuring, outplacement, legal compliance, analysis and innovation of organizational processes, business partnerships, relations with Trade Unions and Financial Control Institutions. After leaving the company, he continued as an external member of the Board of Directors e, at the same time, he has gone back practicing law and was a management consultant for various companies. He has been also a columnist for newspapers specializing in labor law, automotive services and work organization. His interests include human behavior in the organizational environment, to the neuroscience, the impact of new technologies, the fate of the planet and people facing poverty or war scenarios. He loves traveling, reading, is passionate about many sports, follows the NBA and practices tennis.

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2 CONVERSATIONS

  1. Hi Aldo,
    Thank you for this. From what I have heard from my clients, I believe we will see more of a hybrid model. A few of them have shared with me that they like this approach the best. Also, I have met a couple of clients through teletherapy, and you know what? It is effective. Many of those who I met in person also are ok with this approach.

    Regarding the world of dating, it is ineffective in the long run, but in the short term, it is not so bad. In the world of no rules around courtship, this approach at least slows things down. You might call it a new way of courting. Well, not quite.

    I appreciate your very thoughtful article.💖

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