10 Remote Workforce Trends 2022: What the Future Holds?
10 Remote Workforce Trends 2022: What the Future Holds?
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1. More Focus on Flexible Work in Future
Gone are the days when employees were working routinely for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Going forward, the focus will be on flexible work schedules which can allow workers to simultaneously devote time towards personal life, higher studies, or even freelancing projects they are associated with.
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1. More Focus on Flexible Work in Future
The steep rise in demand of flexible work schedules will not only influence HR policy but also dictate the overall organizational and operational policies. Therefore, new-age leaders must start considering how they can ensure seamless delivery of services to customers and clients, while allowing a flexible work schedule for employees.
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2. Workforce Enablement, Empowerment, and Upskilling
Although research has confirmed that remote work helps employees maintain distance with stress and fatigue, it has become quite significant to understand how this culture paves way for effective workforce management. Employees today are more receptive to an environment that gives enough freedom and
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2. Workforce Enablement, Empowerment, and Upskilling
flexibility that further guarantees timely workforce enablement, empowerment, and upskilling.In the traditional office setup, the HR department has paid due attention to employees’ freedom and empowerment. On the same line, the HR department needs to identify new ways in which employees
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2. Workforce Enablement, Empowerment, and Upskilling
can explore their true potential and learn new things simultaneously.
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3. HR Automation to Cut Costs Significantly
Once you have moved to the remote working setup, it is so obvious that employees would not be interacting with people from different teams and functions at the same pace. Herein, decision-makers should start focusing on how to automate their HR and support functions, such as hiring, training, data analysis, and employee engagement.
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3. HR Automation to Cut Costs Significantly
Remote work statistics suggest that HR automation will help an organization cut support costs significantly, while allowing employees to seamlessly leverage the available learning and development strategies in an efficient way. More importantly, investment in automation can help the HR team save time which can be further devoted towards
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3. HR Automation to Cut Costs Significantly
developing, training, and guiding new remote workers.
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4. Artificial Intelligence for Data-driven Decisions
It is no surprise that organizations worldwide aim to make data-driven decisions, and this is made much more possible with the help of Artificial Intelligence. Many organizations have already been leveraging its multiple compelling benefits, such as predicting trends, forecasting tendencies, monitoring business operations
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4. Artificial Intelligence for Data-driven Decisions
in real-time, transforming business, and automating repetitive tasks.Thus, companies will continue leveraging the power of AI to enable and assist employees in the remote working culture. Such a technology can help remote workers in handling, managing, and executing their office tasks in a more productive and smarter way.
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5. Reinforce Cybersecurity Infrastructure
It is a known fact today that cybersecurity would emerge as one of the major concerns for organizations in the future. Organizations need to reinforce their security infrastructure as the virtual mode or remote culture makes the entire organization more vulnerable to lapses, thefts, and even losses.Studies have revealed that organizations have started
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5. Reinforce Cybersecurity Infrastructure
investing more on cybersecurity, and even taking the help of Machine Learning for taking appropriate predictive security actions. The rise of remote work culture will further compel decision-makers to revisit their security strategies to protect their valuable IT assets, data, and even remote workers from cybercriminals.
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6. Demand for Unified Communication Tools
It goes without saying that the quality of communication and collaboration among employees decides the quality of service they deliver. As remote work setup hinders daily physical interaction and communication among all the employees, it becomes quite important to leverage a digital platform to stimulate bonding and collaboration.
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6. Demand for Unified Communication Tools
With this, cloud-based unified communication tools take the center stage in remote workforce management and resource management. As per remote work statistics in numerous research, communication tools help employees engage and communicate with fellow team members and build trust in the most personalized manner.
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6. Demand for Unified Communication Tools
More importantly, it also allows them an exclusive space to discuss and brainstorm on any crucial topic at the time of their convenience.
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7. Fewer Meetings, More Office Breaks
Several reports suggest that too many meetings in the remote working setup often hamper the productivity of employees, and therefore, employers must be mindful of how many meetings and breaks an employee gets during any given day. The overuse of virtual communication tools and too much screen time often cause fatigue among employees.
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7. Fewer Meetings, More Office Breaks
Employees working from home seek some break from daily meetings that often hamper their capability and efficiency. This not only helps them focus on their task and activities, but also allows them more time to focus on work-life balance as well as upskilling. Therefore, decision-makers must try to build a
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7. Fewer Meetings, More Office Breaks
roadmap of how to reduce the number of unnecessary meetings.
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8. No More Extended Working Hours
On one hand, remote work allows people from different time zones to work more coherently, but at the same time it makes it a little challenging for everyone to adjust as per their fellow team member’s time zones. \This often results in extended working hours for some employees, and this has been a major reason behind
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8. No More Extended Working Hours
employees suffering employee burnout and fatigue.Remote workers find it extremely difficult to extend working hours beyond their standard time duration. Therefore, it becomes quite necessary to draft more flexible remote work policies that do not compel employees to extend working hours.
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9. Occasional In-office Workdays
Numerous companies have already asked their employees to work from office premises on a specific number of days in a week. This helps employees to stay more connected with their teams and colleagues. Such a policy may keep on changing as per emerging business needs and health advisory.
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9. Occasional In-office Workdays
However, one must not forget that in the longer duration of time, employees would look forward to annual or bi-annual meetups. This brings forth the significance of drafting occasional in-office workdays strategies, which can help employees meet their team and connect with them on a more personalized note.
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10. Be Prepared for Post-pandemic Office Activities
Although experts are yet to make an opinion on the end date of the pandemic, it is believed that the impact of pandemic, and the change that it has brought, will continue to stay for a long time. Businesses across regions and realms may continue to leverage the benefits of remote workforce trends; however, they must also be prepared for
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10. Be Prepared for Post-pandemic Office Activities
some office activities in the post-pandemic era.Research has revealed that some employees are looking forward to resumption of normal office work on an occasional basis in the post-pandemic era. Herein, choosing a comparatively smaller office space for accommodating a
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10. Be Prepared for Post-pandemic Office Activities
a specific set of employees on a frequent basis can be quite cost-efficient and helpful for organizations.