{"id":8720,"date":"2021-07-19T12:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:39:14","slug":"the-looming-questions-that-come-with-hybrid-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/the-looming-questions-that-come-with-hybrid-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Questions That Come With Hybrid Working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hybrid work is likely to be the new normal, and the rest of 2021 will be a gigantic experiment in hybrid work, productivity, employee\/employer participation, and management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some data points to consider:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-2066d6d3-5500-49fe-9229-35d588a83f5b\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-selected rich-text\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"group\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Block: List\" data-block=\"2066d6d3-5500-49fe-9229-35d588a83f5b\" data-type=\"core\/list\" data-title=\"List\">\n<li>A TinyPulse survey of HR managers found that 62.8% consider hybrid work to be the most productive approach for their companies.<\/li>\n<li>Global Workplace Analytics predicts that 25% to 30% of the workforce will work from home several days a week by the end of this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The most important questions during this large-scale work experiment include:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-94d07721-bb24-4cd6-b362-d1a4642961d4\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-selected rich-text\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"group\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Block: List\" data-block=\"94d07721-bb24-4cd6-b362-d1a4642961d4\" data-type=\"core\/list\" data-title=\"List\">\n<li>\n<h4>Will companies be data-driven through hybrid work, remote work and in-person?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Microsoft Research found that 54% of workers are overworked and 39% feel exhausted. The productivity signals from Microsoft 365 indicate digital overload, with Microsoft Teams holding more meetings than ever from February 2020 to February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies say that they care about the well-being of their employees, but Microsoft Research has revealed that a fifth of respondents worldwide say that their employer does not care about their work-life balance.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-083063fc-167a-4fe8-82d2-a5b6a3a95207\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-selected rich-text\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"group\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Block: List\" data-block=\"083063fc-167a-4fe8-82d2-a5b6a3a95207\" data-type=\"core\/list\" data-title=\"List\">\n<li>\n<h4>How do diversity and inclusion influence the hybrid approach?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Many companies are planning a job-restoration plan centred around big cities, but the problem is that lower-income employees cannot move to a big city location, and it is in fact remote work that has opened up diversity for many companies.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul id=\"block-71ed7851-aa61-4812-80a9-a9d72d267fa2\" class=\"block-editor-rich-text__editable block-editor-block-list__block wp-block is-selected rich-text\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"group\" aria-multiline=\"true\" aria-label=\"Block: List\" data-block=\"71ed7851-aa61-4812-80a9-a9d72d267fa2\" data-type=\"core\/list\" data-title=\"List\">\n<li>\n<h4>How is vaccine management developing?<\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>According to the TinyPulse survey, 48% of companies are in favor of vaccination, while 28% of personnel have no vaccination policy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/return-to-work-meets-hybrid-office-6-looming-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the big questions that come with the start of hybrid work models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}