After the coronavirus, the return from the home office is not entirely different from where the workers left, with most returning to the hybrid mode.
The legal environment requires 40 percent entry, and where this can be done, 60 percent of the work can be done remotely. In other words, returning workers are no longer returning to a pre-Covid system, but to a hybrid mode, and the extent to which all of this weighs heavily depends on the shape of the company and the workplace environment. Employee turnover has increased in several places – OD psychologist Palaz Racucci told management forum In a published interview.
According to the expert, when a large number of employees work remotely, at least in part, companies do not see the day-to-day work process. In this case, he believes that the real solution, which deals not only with problems on the surface, but affects them down to the roots, is to adapt a more empowering management style and create an atmosphere of trust.
Balázs Rákóczi added that there are already companies, such as Netflix, where business hours do not have to be calculated. They start from the fact that the workers are given a task, and if someone can complete their weekly task in one hour, then they do it, they are not interested in what the worker does in the rest of the time.
It is not the time to work, but the task is the task
However, this requires a large-scale change of situation to make it clear that it is not the amount of time we spend on the task that is important, but rather its completion. In this way, many companies realize that work can be done in less time, and home office options, for example, efforts to offer a four-day workweek, because people work more efficiently in four days, lead to this.
According to Balázs Rákóczi, there are employees who perform worse because they are concerned about their overhead costs, but that depends on the sector.
In areas where a large percentage of the salary is spent on utilities and food, as well as basic self-maintenance items, this is clearly a more serious concern. Everyone is aware of the kind of economic and political environment that surrounds us.
Those who are more protected than this, and who have plenty of reserves anyway, have a roadblock. This is evident in everyday life, including at work, he said.
The expert stated that in a survey they conducted at a company last year, they looked at how much stress can be traced back to the roots of the workplace when people report increased stress, how much changes affect their personal environment, or external factors they experience. Uncontrollable, such as the weather, or the economic and political situation.
The end result was that serious stress factors emerge from all three areas, but it is clear that if the workplace is considering stress management, it focuses primarily on those factors it can control.
As part of this, they are trying to figure out how wellness programs can be offered, how useful lectures and workshops can be brought in, and how people can be taught ways in which they can enrich their repertoire of stress management.
