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Numerous offices across the United States will reopen and “return to work” initiatives will launch in the coming months. What comes next isn’t the death of the office, nor will it be a return to the way things were.
A survey my team conducted on LinkedIn found that 68% of the 9,235 respondents wanted the flexibility to work both remotely and in the office. Our survey data is not an outlier. World Economic Forum’s survey found that 72% of workers wanted a hybrid remote office model. A PWC survey found that a majority of employees want a blend of remote and in-office working.
The future of work is hybrid; where employees are co-located in the same space and working remotely. The office becomes a meeting place for collaboration, connection, and innovation—not a heads down cubical farm.
Hybridity offers you and your team members the benefits of remote work – increased flexibility, reduced carbon footprint, and enhanced employee satisfaction – as well as the critical advantages of co-located work – informal networking, cultural socialization, and face-to-face collaboration.
Here’s how you and your team can maximize the benefits of a hybrid workplace.
To enable performance in a hybrid workplace, you and your team need to clarifyand adjust how you work together. Collaboration systems and processes are both content and context specific. The goal is to determine how to enhance the execution of your team’s projects utilizing both virtual and in-person collaboration systems and processes.
Back-to-back Zoom calls have left many team members feeling disconnected from their manager and colleagues due to the formal, transactional structure of these calls. Humans are social animals. We want to connect with our colleagues and miss the informal, spontaneous exchanges that occurred in the office breakroom or hallway and we don’t want to be in the office every day.
A hybrid workplace requires an intentional balance between social and transactional team member interactions.
Ask your team members:
Uncertainty and ambiguity undermine employee performance and can be exacerbated in a hybrid work environment. When employees know what is expected of them, organizations can realize a 22% reduction in turnover and a 10% increase in productivity, according to Gallup.
To reduce uncertainty, ensure that your team members know your communication and project execution expectations.
Once your communication and implementation expectations are well-defined, confirm that your team member performance expectations are clear. Meet with each team member and verify that their goals are specific, enable them to leverage their unique strengths, and that they understand how each goal supports the obtainment of a team, division, or corporate goal.
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