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$$ Case study: The case $$Google$$s Hybrid Workplace Model and Location Based Pay$$ describes Google$$s plans for a $$hybrid workforce model$$ that encouraged employees to return to office for better collaboration. The case first focuses on the company$$s plans to create more options to attract employees back into offices based on the annual employee survey $$Googlegeist$$ conducted in February $2021,$ which indicated that more than $70$ percent employees were unwilling to return to work and were ready to forego the facilities offered at the workplace. Accordingly, Google planned to create new office locations so that employees had greater location options to work from closer to home. Under the new work plan announced in May $2021,$ about $60$ percent of the employees had to come to office three days a week; another $20$ percent had to work in new office locations; and $20$ percent could work remotely. The case then touches upon the key elements of the new workplace model that offered greater choice of office locations, availability of non$-$office locations, new collaboration technology, and greater work flexibility to enable employees to collaborate effectively across work environments. Google$$s Real estate and Workplace Services team was responsible for implementing the new workplace design. The case finally discusses the location based pay policy that Google planned to implement with the new hybrid work model where the compensation of employees would vary based on their choice of location. Employees, however, perceived this as a violation of the principle of equal work and equal pay, leading to changes in job related attitudes.

$$Questions: a$)$ Analyze the elements of a hybrid workplace model.$$

b$)$ Write the challenges of implementing new hybrid workplace policies