I’m a big sci-fi fan, particularly the stories where space travelers return from a long journey and everyone they know has changed.
HR may just find their workers returning to the offices, back from the “journey” of the year-plus long pandemic and working remotely, have changed quite a bit as well.
You may not immediately see the changes in your returning workers but you need to understand that many of those who left the mothership over a year ago, perhaps in a very rushed exit, have indeed gone through a metamorphosis on the inside.