Home, Hybrid or Work From Office? Employees Response for WFH: Abhi* (name changed upon request), an IT professional, learned that his daughter has abdominal cancer during the second Covid wave last year. “It was a very trying period for my family and me. The tests began thanks to several doctors we know at AIIMS. I requested an indefinite leave of absence as soon as I told my boss in Bengaluru. During this difficult period, my employer helped me out and permitted me to take a leave of absence and work from home (WFH),” said Abhi.
However, Abhi is not the only one who has contacted their employers asking for a permanent WFH option due to their family circumstances, such as caring for elderly parents and working from home to spend more time with their families — something, according to the employers, was unthinkable before Covid. In reality, hundreds of workers at The New York Times are refusing to go back to the workplace by working from home in protest.
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The ability to manage our own individual risk assessment is significant to our membership… Being asked to give up that ability to be in control of my own personal safety for myself and my loved ones, is something that we don’t want and it hasn’t been negotiated over,” Bloomberg quoted Times software engineer Carrie Price in an interview.
As such, how are companies responding and reacting to such demands? To understand the concept and its many facets, we reached out to industry players who not only decoded the work-from-home module but also listed its pros and cons.
Before the pandemic, working from home was “unthinkable” and “unfavourable,” but in the last two years, many businesses have adopted the practise. This phenomenon has paved the way for a mindset shift (for employers and employees alike), as well as opened up new channels for communication, setting expectations, and prioritising tasks with the aid of technology, according to Sukhpreet Singh, Head of HR at Credgenics.
In fact, many businesses are setting up a hybrid virtual model — a new combination of remote and on-site working — in which some workers work from office locations while others do so according to a rota (alternate/three days a week) from their homes.According to Dr. Rohit Sharma, CEO and founder of Zini, “Such a model provides more access to talent, enhances productivity for individuals and small teams, lowers costs, allows more individual flexibility, and improves employee experiences.” AI
Although it has been found that well-managed remote teams can be far more productive than physically managed workers during the epidemic, Singh listed a few concerns that organisations are also confronting with the permanent WFH structure.
lack of coordination and cooperation, decline in motivation frequent breaks and unmonitored performance, inadequate office supplies and worries about data security, a poor working environment and lots of interruptions recurring burnout measuring staff productivity is challenging.
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