Future of work after this pandemic
The Corona Virus outbreak worldwide changes our perspective of life, our vision toward the future. It’s no longer just a change in workplace by shifting to work from homes, but also a radical shift to different nature of work, searching for the reason behind it, following the will to fulfill the duty toward emerging society needs. The core of the firms will change. As a matter of fact, some car companies like Tesla and General Motors transformed their factories to produce ventilators in order to content the increase in demand generated by the exponential rise in cases. Jobs will be decomposed into tasks controlled remotely. They become portable to satisfy critical missions in a fast and effective manner. More flexibility will take place in terms of moving employees across different tasks and accelerate the automation rate taking into consideration the world is evolving fast.
Some challenges encounters home workers especially related to the struggle to maintain a healthy balance between accomplishing the daily acquired missions and keeping an eye on the family, particularly the kids staying at home while the nurseries and schools still closed. Virtual world takes place, online meetings are set, anxiety level increases as daily tasks must meet expectations in this life-threatening scenario in line with a lack of productivity. Firms are struggling in this hard time, while each employer must hustle to be the Ideal worker in order to survive in the company, once willing to evaluate the damages, all positions might be at risk. The rush to respond to the current necessities will favorite the quantity over of the quality of work. We can shed the light as well that the manager can handle the situation more than an ordinary worker with less wages unable to have the same developed technological equipment at home, required to perform the work with more efficiency. Inequality strikes again to favor employees staying at home from operators in charge of pursuing their work outside in danger with lack of security and flexibility.
The traditional trend must be put to an end. It’s time for the firms to re-evaluate and build a new system simple and flexible, to focus on being more productive not on working more hours. Managers should assign less chores to their staffs, provide them with the required time to engender more creative ideas, emerged after some leisure time through a ride, music, art or meditation. People become portfolio workers, with the main concerns of the firms to generate profits, quick decisions are made when it’s the time to reconsider rewarding better responses, not just the faster replies. If we want to end up with a healthy combination of our workforce and the organizational performance, decreasing the intensity of work while assuring the worker the opportunity to establish its own balance at home can led this path to occur. Finally, remotely adjusted tasks in a flexible workplace represents the future of work not just a critical phase.
Management should first let them establish the required balance between their work and their families by reducing the rate of online meetings and give them some space to come up with new ideas because the increase in stress will make the employee less productive. Give them short time to rest or to practice their hobbies. In this manner, they implement more efficient solutions but as the work is still running at this rate this seems to be far. As firms are expected to start by evaluating the rate of damage resulted from the corona virus so every employee feels the struggle to produce more in order to save his place in the company.
I think it is very often an issue with the self discipline, that employees are making over hours working from home these days. Which actions do you propose for management to prevent them from doing that but still encourage good work and motivation?