Barco Clickshare - 5 key benefits of hybrid working
Barco Clickshare - 5 key benefits of hybrid working
Today, as office buildings are opening up again in some countries, it’s quite clear that there’s no such thing as a rush back to the office.
Especially when you observe the Google Community Mobility Reports in which you can see movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places (like retail & recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential). With social distancing rules in place, it’s impossible to bring entire teams together in the same spaces as before. And because of closed schools and daycare, employees are not always able to head back to the office whenever they want. No, no matter what the reason is, we’ve gone hybrid instead! Balancing between going in-office for some days a week and WFH on other days.
Embracing a hybrid way of working has its upsides, of course. It means you are investing in your employees’ well-being and safety and indirectly improving the focus, productivity and efficiency of the collaboration in your businesses. Hybrid is the way forward to keep your business running, in the most critical of times, as our recent research on hybrid work and meeting unveils.
“On average, employees only want to spend a maximum of 2 days a week at home in future”
- Finding a new balance, research on hybrid working
WFH fatigue kicks in
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Earlier this year, we were all of a sudden forced to say goodbye to busy meeting rooms, watercooler conversations and spontaneous huddles. No more commuting, no more travelling to an oversea customer, no more office romances and no more face-to-face meetings. With COVID-19 lockdowns all over the globe, we embraced the home office. We welcomed occasional unexpected participants - cats or curious toddlers - in our video calls, stayed in our safe remote working bubble at home, attended numerous webinars, organized virtual events and demos. We got used to the endless streams of virtual meetings.
After months in quarantine, employees feel strongly about getting back to the workplace. Even when enterprises keep safety measures and social distancing rules in mind, there are still very few people who come in every day to a physical building. Nevertheless, in our future work model it will not be about working from home (WFH) “or” working from the office. We will need to find the perfect balance between both. So, let’s explore the benefits of hybrid working and working in distributed teams.
The best of both worlds
Employers now need to build their workplace strategy around this desire for a truly versatile hybrid way of working. They can create a workplace culture that empowers employees to work flexibly depending on the type of work they need to do and their individual circumstances. And at the same time they can enjoy both the benefits of remote working and those of traditional office work.
Not only will hybrid work-models help businesses to remain agile and give them the ability to adapt quickly to unexpected circumstances to keep their operations running in these especially uncertain times (e.g. employees in temporary quarantine, governmental measures with new spikes of COVID-19,...), the new models also have some clear benefits for the well-being and productivity of their employees. Hybrid working keeps your workforce: