Improving Employee Collaboration in the Post-Pandemic Workplace
The COVID-19 might have just brought the much-needed revolution in the labor trend and how organizations function. A labor trend that encourages employees’ health and safety and also provides flexible working hours can be the best outcome of this pandemic. The companies have redesigned the way they function. Cloud computing and technologies that enable us to work remotely without compromising the quality of the work have always existed. Still, we never quite imagined that this could be the new and only way of our lives. However, with the pandemic emerging out of nowhere and companies needing to make a quick call on how it functions, it really managed to accommodate the remote ways of working very well. Sure, there were downsides of this pandemic to the labor market as well. A considerable number of the population lost their jobs or went furlough.
To thrive in such an ever-changing, more volatile, and ambiguous world, organizations, embrace agility as the way of work. The need for change and at speed never seen before is the call of the hour. Digitalization, automation, globalization, and whatever can speed and bring this change is accepted and adopted. The ‘hybrid’ way of working is still being tested, and we are yet to see how it turns out and if it is to stay even after the pandemic is over, or if this is the, as they call it, new normal. In 2013, Marissa Mayer, the then CEO of Yahoo!, stopped the hybrid work pattern 2013, saying that we need be one again. The idea of remote working can be very enticing for benefits like flexible hours and other such benefits, but the demerits lie in the lack or the altered way of interaction. The cafeteria talks or the face-to-face interaction was still called for as the best way to interact. With the new model, let us discuss how we can keep up the old practice in its new form and accept post-pandemic workplace trends.
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