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Work from Home/Anywhere or Office Is Not a Question with a Binary Answer.
It could be a hybrid model with a mix of both, varying in percentages depending upon factors that get altered from workforce to workforce and industry to industry.
When the pandemic takes a retreat from our lives, and we are safely on the other side, what’s it going to be like going back to work. Let’s start by asking ourselves a very simple question. After the two most important factors — a. Fondness for work and b. Salary, what is it that attracts people to their workplace? Aren’t we fascinated by the variety of different people we encounter in an organization? Work from home/ Anywhere (WFH/WFA) takes that away from us. The learning that comes our way when we meet people in person and an added personal or professional experience that cannot be expressed in words would no longer be easily derived from one’s workplace if we choose to go with remote working.
A good part of the remote working discussion pertains to the performance and productivity of employees. It is about whether people will be as effective as they are from office? A part of your work can be managed unchaperoned, almost single-handedly, but then there is another part where a team plays a…