The post-pandemic has redefined employee expectations due to which enforcing an employee-centric work culture with remote working patterns is likely emerging as demand for a productive business outgrowth.
FREMONT, CA: Varied aspects of life have evolved since the pandemic, urging a multi-dimensional transformation of the working environment. That is, the workspace is likely undergoing progress, with employee expectations facing massive reformations. Thus, employees are highly opting to work from home despite the remote working culture, with an average of 58 per cent, with video calls and virtual meetups emerging as the bridging connection between them. This has reshaped employee benefits and employer priorities accordingly, per the revolutionising work culture trends.
Generally, the work culture facilitates the efficient achievement of company goals, allowing employees much more productive and creative space and outgrowth. However, the work culture is critically influenced by varied factors like national culture, labour legislation, and an employee-centric work culture favouring shorter work hours, increased breaks, and vacation timings, in addition to surging benefits like paid parental leaves. Following the pandemic invasion, nearly 84 per cent of companies have inclined towards the establishment of personnel advantages in the sector.
Despite the emergence and adoption of employee-centric cultures, cultivating a healthy work culture requires considerate actions as it often encounters barriers that may affect the technique’s efficiency rate. That is, irrespective of the achievements that a work culture precedes, it may face poor leadership, an unbalancing work culture on account of poor communication, workplace bullying, a declining growth rate, poor work-life balance, burnouts, and high employee turnover rates. Thus, organisations are likely seeking opportunities to attract and retain their talented employees owing to evolving technology.
Flexibility with working hours was much anticipated before the pandemic and has likely emerged as an most demanding company policy in recent years. Various research elucidated that employees with a high degree of control over their work achieved a high degree of satisfaction, while those with less flexibility faced adversities. Moreover, choosing reliable hours to work contributes to a healthy work-life balance owing to people's varied capabilities at various hours throughout the day.
Similarly, remote working has emerged as the most favourable choice for employees since COVID-19's advent, as evidenced by the increased working-from-home statistics among newly hired teleworkers or workers during the lockdown scenario. The after-effects of introducing this work culture were highly monumental, as 90 percent of the employees globally admitted an acceleration in their productivity, while 80 percent relied on the same working pattern despite the lifting of restrictions. Alongside this, remote or hybrid working opens up seamless opportunities like lower overhead costs, more productive employees, and the ability to recruit personnel from a wide talent pool with nil geographic constraints.
It contributes to a healthy work-life balance owing to the elimination of meddling between family needs and workspace, with employees often spending the least time commuting, saving money and time accordingly. Thus, implementing a remote work culture in organisations facilitates businesses in leveraging the height of employees' productivity with increased cost and time efficiency.
