Hybrid Work Model

In present, we are slowly moving back to the working at office system after pandemic and economic crisis but the home office isn’t about to shut down. From small company to large worldwide conglomerates, plan to implement some hybrid form for their work because of the success of remote working and to keep the engagement between the employees.  Both employees and employers have found arguments to consider remote work, and especially working from home, as a worthy competitor to traditional on-site work.   Although   many   see   remote   work   as   beneficial,   especially   because   it   offers   more flexibility to both sides, there are some visible and hidden drawbacks related to human, social and organizational factors. However, lessons learned will help individuals and organizations align their preferences and capabilities with the challenges of remote work, such as the need for social contacts and the means to main...

In the present, hybrid working has become a new norm. Lot of organizations has decided that hybrid working is the way to go forward. Going hybrid has become a trend in last two years. There are several exemplary organizations who went hybrid in the world and in the country as well. A lot of hybrid companies that show how they have moved to a hybrid work model in an open and transparent way. In this topic, organizations who went hybrid in the world and inside Sri Lanka and the takeaways from those stories are explained. The world famous IT Company Microsoft has decided on October 2020 to execute a unique hybrid work model. From October 2020, Microsoft has declared regarding following the Unique Hybrid work model which consists of more 50% remote work and less time in office where permission from management is not required. If few employees want to work 50% remote and 50% in office then permission from management is necessary.  Those employees who permanently wants to work remotely...

Challenges and obstacles are a constant in this world. Every solution arises another problem and we keep solving the problems one by one. That is called life. Same as the normal office working and remote working, the employees who are adapted or adapting to the new norm of hybrid working are facing new challenges day by day and also they will face very different challenges within the time being. If something is there or some activities are happening for a long period, people earn lot of experience in that certain thing or the activity. Let’s take the pen as an example. It is here for a long time and lot of people know how to use it and got experience with the pen. There are lot of references to learn about the pen. But the hybrid work model is a brand new concept that everyone is still learning the concept. Because of that learn from others experience can be problematic. So in this topic, challenges around hybrid work model and the ways to overcome will be talked about. Communication...

Hybrid work is a great concept but the mental health of the employees with time being is starting to take damages. We all can agree that hybrid work helps to flexible your work and life. Flexibility also give you a certain level of mental freedom as well. But it is possible that the hybrid working also creates a middle ground of disconnection. According to a research, only 22% of frontline workers report feeling connected to others (Murphy & Herring, 2019). Human is a social animal and being alone can be painful. It is possible to feel tired eventually even though you are love to be alone. Hybrid work has good impact on mental health as well as negative impact. Positive impact on the mental health of hybrid working and how to overcome the negatives on individually, managerially and from the perspective of the company are described in this topic. Positive Impact on the Mental Health Without an argument, flexible work hours have a great amount of positive impact on the employee...

From the pre-pandamic to post-pandamic era and from the post-pandamic to economical crisis times, working environments went through huge changes rapidly. Office working to Remote working and back to office working, then going again to remote work and now the new hybrid working, workforce had to go through massive adjustments in their work and lives. Managing the human resource in these times were harder than ever before. Not only that, these adapting procedures must be smoother and employee-friendly as well. For a proper switching of the workplace to a hybrid working environment, there are few steps that had been used and will be helpful in the future. Identified common steps of proper implementation procedures of hybrid module are described under this topic. The effective implementation of a hybrid working model will be greatly influenced by how you communicate inside your organization and between teams. The best option is to adopt a form of asynchronous communication, which will al...