Return-to-office planning today is an important task for many companies. Most of the businesses have experienced tremendous change in headcount over the past two years which makes the transition back to the office quite challenging.
According to Google Trends data analysis 43% of businesses are targeting a full return to office and 31% plan a hybrid system that requires employees to spend part time in the office.
How to get ready for reorienting existing employees and welcoming new team members?
1. Understand your company needs of workplace
Evaluate the changing needs of your workforce. Do you need your employees to return to your business previous workplace with assigned seating or do you need adjustment for hybrid work operation?
Based on results, develop a new workplace strategy to optimize productivity and satisfaction of your workforce.
- Hybrid businesses operation
The hybrid workplace approach is a leading model at this time with a mix of working from the office and working from home during the typical workweek with minimal policy control by employer.
JLL Work Dynamics market research found that 63% of office workers prefer a hybrid or flexible work schedule, with 79% aspiring to be in the office at least once a week.
In this structure you need to determine when and where your employees are most efficient to complete their work. This could be challenging since hybrid operations require more money to support both remote and in the office employees. But with smart planning even in today’s harsh economy you can succeed.
- Full time in the office operation
With a task to return your labor force full time back to the workplace you will need to strategically rethink how your office space can accommodate ways of working for returning employees and meeting expectations of new members.
Successful companies are making great efforts to support employees mental health and well-being:
· When location allows employers are adding walking paths, exercise spaces, providing healthy food for employees to relax and reenergize.
· They are creating modern libraries and business living rooms to offer their employees informal ways to meet their colleagues and build fellowship and engage in the company’s culture.
2. Optimize collaboration between office and remote workers
Socializing with colleagues, being present part of the community or connected face-to-face visually are factors highly important for employees.
· Organizations are getting creative with redesigning office spaces by providing working in-cafes with abilities to connect with remote employees.
· For remote employees companies we are considering the whole area, town or city as their workplace, with the potential to allow their employees to work and stay connected with their office anywhere between home and third spaces.
3. Choose the right technology for your business
In today’s fast-paced world, immediate access to the right technology is critical to running a business swiftly and confidently.
Use your strategic new technology and data-driven insights to help your employees to get back to the office and optimize their productivity in a new hybrid environment.
By utilizing the right for your organization tools you will be able to optimize collaboration between the office and remote employee and empower dynamic workforce with high productivity.
Conclusion
The work of optimizing and maintaining a work strategy is never complete. You will continue to test and optimize your workplace strategy. Whether implementing full time working in the office, hybrid or remote model, modification will continue to understand and choose the most cost efficient yet productive ways for your workforce.
Remember the best value of your business are people! Put their interests first and you will get understanding and support despite your tight budget to start with.