Poorvi AroraEngagement Manager| DoItLeanPune, Maharashtra, India
Pandemic has imposed us to adopt and experiment with digital transformation, virtual ways of working, trusting employees more while working remotely, empowering more flexibility etc.
These changes have benefited the employees in spending more time with their family members, no long commute hours, can work when they are more productive, and organization has seen the overall improvement in the productivity of the employees.
Getting back to new normal as most people inoculated, organizations now planning to open and making a shift towards hybrid working culture which provides the flexibility to employees to:
Option A: Work from Home permanently
Option B: Work from Office
Option C: Mix of Option A and B
We have seen times wherein employees were working entirely from office spaces to shifting towards working remotely during lockdown phase, and now transitioning to the hybrid model as we are becoming more used to this new normal.
Certain changes required while adopting hybrid working culture:
· Flexible Policies
· Mindset of the employee and employers,
· Shift in organizational culture
· Change in the leadership style,
· Way of Working
· Communication channels
· Rebuilding the team structure
· More team bonding
· People skills like empathy, respect, trust can be inculcated in the organizational culture to have a balance of harmony and performance of the employees
By making the strategical and leadership modifications, the benefits can be reaped by employers and employees both without the burden of new normal.
I prefer hybrid - that is Option C. I guess this is what most folks & companies prefer too. After this corona started, many are working from homes & we have lost the regular in-person rapport building, team normalization. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Poorvi,
yes, hybrid is the way we will go and I think we already went for 20+ years with globalization.
In the 2000s, I had a team in Pune, working out of Germany and naturally we worked virtual most of the time. But we also went to Pune to see each other f2f and build trust and vice versa brought Pune people to Germany, some for more than a year including family.
Hybrid I think is nothing new, but it was always situationally doing the best thing. Humans need f2f interactions but most work can be done physically separated.
Thomas Saving Changes...
Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
A couple of considerations here is cost of maintaining an office at home in terms of equipment and suitable space as well as data security. Both of these concerns can be solved but may take some time and agreements on costs.
There also is (will be) a desire for employers to go to a gig environment where employees become contract workers. Again do-able but a significant employment and cultural change with possible legal ramifications.
It will take a while to work all this out. Saving Changes...
The new way of working must incorporate changes that reflect the use of resources and technologies that are present within organizations. Saving Changes...
