Work from home models bring significant financial savings for businesses, but at what cost to employee productivity? Maintaining the pre-Covid routine of mandatory office attendance boosts senior management’s visibility of their workforce, but this is likely to have repercussions on employee satisfaction, well-being and health. In this most modern of dilemmas, HR teams will be pondering the question – do we need a physical office?
Simply put, yes, most businesses will continue to need office spaces, possibly even more than they did before the pandemic, but they may serve a different purpose. The move away from the physical in the past year, by choice or not, has shone a light on the opportunities for improvement in the workplace, especially in terms of work-life-balance, employee well-being and ensuring time spent in the office is worthwhile for employees and the business alike.
According to a CBRE report, about 85% of employees prefer a hybrid working...