The Business Bulletin
So you want to go hybrid? At the moment all the talk coming out of lockdown is around hybrid working. It seems to offer the win:win of more flexibility, greater productivity, greater employee choice, reduced travel time and costs, and reduced office space. Here are some thoughts about what you need to consider. What is your purpose? One of the notable changes in 2020 was the number of people who took time out to question what they were doing and what it was that fulfilled them. Some, like frontline and key workers, who are often lowly paid, may not have had the luxury to take the time to reflect. They have,
some people are in the office and
in the way?
others are working from home your purpose needs to be clear. Does your organisation have a clear purpose and does that feel worthwhile; and will it allow people to make great decisions when they are working in different locations?
Experiment Much still remains uncertain. Will another lockdown happen? How is the market responding? What does really good Hybrid working look like for us? And the answer to this latter is – find out. Don’t be too quick
however, been wondering at the
What do you mean?
difference between their pay and their
When you talk about hybrid working
colleagues what can and can’t be
what exactly are you talking about?
done. Set some boundaries, some
For some it just means being in the
key principles – we need staff in the
office some days and working from
office every day, or we have core hours
importance to the ongoing running of our society. As the pandemic recedes, or even if it doesn’t, these questions will more
home others. For others it means a
frequently come to the forefront for
combination of home and workplace
people, especially for those workers
activity AND flexing actual hours of
who have choices about who they
work. Think it through – what do you
work for and what they do. To keep
really need to happen and what will
your organisation together while
deliver your purpose and what will get
to set your policies in stone, or tell
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