Hybrid Work
Your Challenges
Hybrid work, which combines remote work and on-site work, has become a prevalent work arrangement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We support organizations in fostering an agile culture, where the flexibility of working arrangements is considered a competitive advantage.
Today there are probably as many models as there are organizations, from organizations working remotely almost entirely to organizations (e.g. in the digital industries), with a predominant share of processes and roles built around on-site work (such as many production, medical or hospitality activities). While hybrid work offers increased flexibility and real benefits, it also poses unique challenges that we successfully address with our clients:
- Some associates are too comfortable working from home and do struggle to return to the office.
- Some people overestimate the potential of virtual interactions and tend to forget that face-to-face experiences strengthen connection as well as collaboration and are much richer in terms of non-verbal cues. Such is the case for employee and client interactions, among members of a team as well as with candidates in recruitment processes, potentially introducing bias and leading to sub-optimal decision-making when merely relying on remote interactions.
- Being successful as a team when innovating and doing creative work is much more difficult, when working remotely.
- Managing hybrid teams is tougher and requires additional skills.
- Onboarding new talent is more complex as some of the cultural memes get lost in remote interactions.
- Coaching, teaching and shadowing junior talent proves to be more challenging
- Finding the balance and setting the limits between our private and professional spheres is more challenging.