Key Highlights:

• While work from home has equipped employees with high level of productivity, it has also bought feeling of isolation, blurring of lines between work life balance and lack of collaboration.
• A fundamental change bought by remote working is the trust between a manager and a direct report to work with utmost efficiency and productivity.
• Companies that were forced to adapt to a hybrid model of working due to the pandemic are now embracing it.
• HR policies have to be constantly evolving or situational in nature to provide the right solutions to businesses. Long term or rigid policies have not always proven to be successful.
• Employees are seeing multiple benefits in a hybrid model of working like cost savings, work-life balance and flexibility to work from any location of their choice.
• Organizations must enable employees with the right work setup to ensure optimum productivity and seamless communications between teams for a sustainable work environment.
• Trust plays a critical role in a remote working scenario where managers should ensure that team members feel engaged, well connected and focused but not extensively scrutinized.
• Organizations will have to define few processes to manage performance, communication and engagement in a remote working scenario.
• Collaboration will emerge as an important factor in performance management. Individual goals will have to be met alongside team building and knowledge sharing amongst teams.
• New era of work will largely depend on technology to ensure a safe, smart and smooth remote working scenario.