Hybrid Work Culture-
We’ve entered a new era of work culture; a sudden shift to remote work, the move to hybrid work. A blended model in which some employees deliver service from the workplace and others provide work from home. A necessary work model of the time.
Today, we witness the simultaneous increase of population and eligible candidates but unfortunately, also the lack of job opportunities for them. People are in search of job opportunities all over the world. But, eligible candidates are limited by the major issue of distance.
So, the need for a culture arises where the employees do not need to travel to a different location limited to a cubicle/office. Such a culture will allow them to become assets; human resources.
We work efficiently when we are comfortable. We deliver the service at a high standard. A finesse effort. The world needed a break from the monotonous and conventional work culture where you are to maintain an unimportant regime that bore you; diminishes your efficiency.
A sudden outbreak of the pandemic in 2019 shook the foundation of humanity but brought about the necessary change in the field of work culture we all are following today. We are no longer needed to move to a location in order to deliver efficient labour, every day. An employee can attend to his morning tea and can still earn his daily bread.
Moreover, the lack of need to travel to a designated space also helps the company to save capital in a number of things. The space for an office is not needed, nor the expenses of Wi-Fi, tea, biscuits, and many more.
But if we perceive it from a different angle, we are not actually limiting the workspace but extending it to incomprehensible boundaries.
Working from home shouldn’t only be limited to working from one’s home but from where ever he is comfortable. It can be from a park, from a hill station, from a bus, or even while sitting in the toilet.
This new hybrid work culture totally adds an extension to the possibilities of how one can lead his personal-career life and at some point merge them both. Because our career cannot be something different from our lives but a very important part of it.
A career is something that sometimes gives meaning to your life. And a blend of both working from home or working from work is the nearest possible way right now that leads to that realisation.
As a result of globalization, this hybrid work culture brings the working world closer.
The old model of work culture couldn’t help you to work for a company in a different country or not even to a location you may not be able to shift to. But if you think about this new work culture we are witnessing and practicing provides you the opportunity and flexibility to be employed in a company in the USA or England or somewhere far away.
Like every medium or culture in the world, the new hybrid culture has its shortcomings. Remote working which is mainly dependent on widespread internet connectivity may sometimes go haywire. Working from home often involves a lot of struggles in keeping the distractions away. Communicating and collaborating with team members is one of the shortcomings of this new culture.
Moreover, managing productivity is another challenge for the employees practicing this form of work culture. Even though we have the access to outstanding technology but still we witness issues regarding it. So, for example, during a very important business meeting or presentation to clients via video call or over a voice call; we face some connectivity issue or technical issue, it will surely ruin the entire situation. Hence, circumstances as such may lead to difficulty in carrying forward an institution or organization. But, that is the issue with all things and the fact that a coin has both sides.
We have to move on with this new work culture that we experience today and observe its development over the year to come
This new culture that is forming around our society will surely redefine the entire definition of being an employed citizen. It is the latest trend in the entire world right now and is here to stay for another century, till some other more flexible culture drops out of nowhere tomorrow.