After a wildly tumultuous start to the decade, it feels risky to posit predictions for 2021. What we can say confidently is that COVID-19 spurred a massive shift in where and how employees work, and how companies attract and engage talent and many of these changes are likely to endure long after the threat from the pandemic has passed. In mid-2020, McKinsey described this moment in time as “The Quickening.”1 It observed that in 90 days beginning March 2020, the world jumped forward 10 years. Fro
