Looking to develop your organisation’s hybrid working practices? Culture24’s Let’s Get Real Hybrid report contains strategic insights; case studies from the participating organisations; and reflections on how cultural organisations can build a thriving hybrid working environment.
Run in partnership with Birmingham Museums Trust between June 2022 to Feb 2023, we brought a cohort of 9 organisations together to discuss the challenges of building a thriving hybrid working environment and to collaborate to develop tactics that can exploit the opportunities offered by hybrid working.
The insights offered in this report focus on communications, culture, working rhythms, skills, tools, platforms and more. They will help support you to interrogate your own hybrid working practices.
Download the colour version of the report here.
Download the black and white version of the report here.
Participating organisations
- Birmingham Museums Trust – https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/
- Bodleian Libraries – https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/home
- Bluecoat – https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/
- Bristol Museums – https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/
- Engage – https://engage.org/
- Gardens, Libraries and Museums, University of Oxford – https://www.glam.ox.ac.uk/
- Manchester Art Gallery – https://manchesterartgallery.org/
- Royal Armouries – https://royalarmouries.org/
- The Bowes Museum – https://thebowesmuseum.org.uk/
- Libraries and Museums, University of St Andrews – https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/museums/ & https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/
What did LGR Hybrid focus on?
LGR Hybrid tackled a core challenge for the cultural sector in the 2020s, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. The project addressed how, as a sector and a society, the pandemic forced us to fundamentally question and rethink how we work. The forced experiments with remote working in 2020 and the hybrid working reality of 2021 posed a significant threat to collaboration, resilience, inclusivity, finances and more in the cultural sector.
So, from June 2022 to February 2023 Culture24 supported nine UK cultural organisations to begin a journey of interrogating, understanding and developing their hybrid working practices. Across the nine participating organisations, small scale experiments were conducted within their current and upcoming digital activity.
Some organisations focussed on internal practice, such as how they communicate, or the tools, platforms and skills that they use. Others opted to focus on audience-facing interventions such as weaving virtual experiences into their in-person programmes. The project brought together a community of people and organisations with a shared sense of purpose to foster open, honest and collaborative learning between participants as we began to emerge from one of the most turbulent times our sector has ever faced.
What were the timelines for the project?
The project ran from June 2022 – January 2023
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