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What Can We Do? The office has been missed by some, the old way of working is what many have been conditioned into and have fond memories of commuting, being at their desk and being around the colleagues, having a lunch break away from the same four walls and not feeling the pressure to work through. The office will have to change, become a space where more rules are put into place and more space is made. Move the desks apart, have more informal working areas and embrace having free meeting rooms and encourage your employees to walk and make use of the outdoor space where less limiting lockdowns are being rolled out. Right now there is an opportunity to breakdown the existing guidance and dynamics and co-create an updated set of guidelines for the company. Breakdown the known issues or existing problems you always wanted to address: ● ● ● ● ● ●
The Office (layout) The reliance of 40 hours in one office The problematic commutes Addressing being too busy to focus Tackling meeting culture Decision fatigue
The 40-hour workweek is a huge topic and something we have lived and worked by in the West since Henry Ford days, the current working day is filled with meetings, numerous distractions and rarely allows deep or productive work. Right now there is an opportunity to refresh the organisational culture and rewrite the rules away from 40 hours in the office or a strict 09.00 to 17.30. For many businesses there is an opportunity to move to coordinated patterns, this is where you and department and team leads can sit together and create varying guidelines for the team. Being rigid here will stop building trust for individuals. Although you have likely had to take the step up and take on the motivator role, you have a new way to motivate people with these tweaks and important changes. Motivate individuals, motive teams, motive departments to motivate and breathe fresh air into the organisation. Empower the Catalysts and internal influencers to carry important messages throughout your transitional period and co-create rules that all company employees get behind.
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