That’s according to new research out today by Chief Executive Women and Bain & Company, which has issued a plea for business leaders to take the lessons from COVID and embrace flexibility as a strategic performance driver across management and teams. They are calling on flexibility to be practiced at scale, rather than in an ad-hoc way. They are urging leaders to encourage it without preconditions or judgement, for it to be adopted by men and women across all levels of companies, and for flexibility to be pursued without impediments to workplace participation, progression, learning and/or effectiveness.