Hybrid Working

The hybrid working model recognises the importance of the office as central to business performance and culture, but it also enables your employees to have more flexibility around when are where they work.

The approach

The pandemic forced many businesses to face the uncomfortable fact that plenty of people can do their jobs from home just as well as in the office. But it also highlighted that some tasks are so much easier and more efficient when everyone is in the room together.

A hybrid working environment could look like:

Staff choosing which days they work in the office
Mandatory attendance for certain days, when meetings and one-to-ones are organised
Shift patterns between roles – some attend on certain days, others attend when they are absent so there is always a presence in the office

Hybrid working allows staff to get work done away from the distractions of open-plan offices and provides them with a level of choice over where they work.

It also provides your business with the opportunity to become more intentional and organised with the contact time you have.

The benefits

Hybrid working can bring plenty of benefits to your business. Your staff have more control over their work-life balance, autonomy and increased job satisfaction. Meanwhile, you can maintain a strong sense of culture and business purpose during the times they are in the office.

Stronger company culture

Your company culture no longer is your office. It becomes much more about the people, trust and empowerment. You’re no longer looking at activity metrics to measure performance. But outcomes and opportunities for growth.

A better balance for everyone

Every employee will want something different. Some may want to work 1 day a week in the office, others may want 4. Hybrid working focuses on what’s best for the individual, offering opportunities for people to feel welcomed into roles who previously may have been overlooked.

Greater productivity

One surprising thing, for managers at least, to come out of the pandemic was that productivity didn’t dip when people worked from home. The penny dropped that so much “contact time” at the office was unproductive and unnecessary, getting in the way of people doing their jobs. Becoming more intentional about the contact time you have is a win from hybrid working.

Better technology

You can’t adopt hybrid working without giving your staff the tech they need to do their jobs elsewhere. A big boon from hybrid working is that it forces you to level up your technology, which makes your staff and your processes more efficient.

Hybrid working