8 Key Steps to Plan for Hybrid Work
Different experts predict that roughly 80-90 percent of employers plan to have their workforces return to the office during Q3 of this year, most with hybrid work, and employees are feeling anxious about it. There are three reasons. Part of the anxiety stems from burnout from the entire COVID work-from-home experience, with employees feeling as if they must be “on” all the time. Second, there is the stress and uncertainty over the culture shock of going back to an environment where employees have not been for 15 months. Third, employees are reporting that their employers have not communicated the vision for the return to work/hybrid work, much less the details.
Last year, many organizations made significant changes to keep their businesses afloat–from going after different markets and launching new products and services to implementing across-the-board Work from Home or Work from Anywhere for their employees. By now, most organizations have the data to determine what market and product changes are sustainable for the new economy we are entering, and now is the ideal time to re-think and fine-tune your organization to determine the best strategy, structure, and work design.