Since 2020, most business operations have been impacted by the pandemic. With that, most employees were forced to work remotely at home. In a short period, employees transitioned from long hours of commuting to the office to a single leap towards the table, from wearing office attire to suddenly working with your bedtime pajamas.
To some, the set-up was complex and chaotic since the business is not prepared for that kind of arrangement. While some, this is the taste of relief that employees have been dreaming of for a long time.
Because of the many benefits of remote work not just for employees but also for businesses, leaders are looking for ways to embrace a mix of both worlds.
Welcome to the new working environment system known as The Hybrid Workplace.
What is a Hybrid Workplace?
Hybrid Workplace is a blended working environment system combining remote work and onsite. Technically, it combines output from remote work and office work while following linear guidelines, making the production integrated regardless of where you work.
It may look different depending on the business, still, it will always include essential and key persons dedicated to working onsite, while others may rotate schedules on a given time frame. It might look complicated, but the goal of the Hybrid Workplace is to create a balance between productivity and the comfort of the employees.
How Does Hybrid Workplace Affect the Performance, Productivity, and Engagement of the Company?
If your business considers transitioning into a hybrid Workplace system, then you should know first the advantages and disadvantages of this kind of Workplace. To help you analyze, let's take a look at these three critical metrics.
Performance
In terms of performance, employees tend to work eagerly when they are at home since they want to prove that they could be excellent even without working on the bound of office premises. They will always show their independence and advanced problem-solving capability when various challenges come their way. With that, the company will trust the employee, thus giving the privilege to continually work remotely from home.
Even employees who have shifting schedules will most likely perform well since they are not bound to a single routinary program, making their work more exciting and fun.
One of the most prominent disadvantages of a hybrid workplace in terms of performance is that particular job positions require in-person set-up to properly accomplish the tasks. With that, they are automatically handpicked to report onsite.
Productivity
Moving on to productivity, we will see that most companies here in the Philippines have already turned down some of their offices to give way to the hybrid workplace. Regarding that move, they can now allocate some budget to increase their workforce by hiring more remote employees who will produce more outputs than what the business has before. In hiring people, the company is also no longer bound to a specific area and definitely no need for any traffic consideration since they will be assigned on a remote set-up.
Another vital factor that you need to consider is that productivity might be affected once the pandemic starts to rise again, forcing the government to implement another nationwide lockdown. With the hybrid Workplace, your business is safe to say more than 50% prepared once it happens since most of your manpower is already working from home. Thus productivity will be less likely impacted.
However, not everyone has the luxury of having a quality internet connection and economic space at home. These are significant factors that will indeed decline the productivity of the business. Working remotely might also be prone to external distractions and interferences such as animal sounds, noise from the neighborhood, or even high volume television at home, resulting in a low-rating output from your employees.
Engagement
As you look closer, you will realize that employees working onsite cannot be involved in engagement activities since they're not allowed to stay intimate with each other as part of the government's health protocol. The solution? Online engagement, which happens anyway when you are working remotely.
Through Hybrid Workplace, people can engage safely with each other without even thinking of being infected with the virus. As long as the company provides fun games and well-engaging activities, employees will most likely become more active even at home.
Given that the company has many activities, you still need to consider that some employees live in a rented space alone. Thus making them lonely and feel less engaged with the community. This scenario is crucial because it may deplete the performance, productivity, or worst, your employee's health.
Successfully Implement Hybrid Workplace System
One of the best benefits that 2020 has given us is the opportunity to innovate our process, especially when dealing with the business' workplace system.
A hybrid Workplace might be challenging, but if you carefully prepare and study this system, it will become your edge to continually upscale your brand without compromising your employees' comfort and performance.
If you need help in planning your company's Hybrid Workplace, reach out to us, The Team at Prevo info@prevo.org and we will assist you in designing the perfect process that your business needs.
Aside from that, we can also suggest proven and tested tools that you can use to maximize your hybrid workplace experience, making it well-performing, more productive, and highly engaging. Visit our website Prevo.org to know more!
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