The business world was catapulted into turbulence and uncertainty in March 2020 when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and companies were forced almost immediately into considering new working methods. This situation allows us to interrogate the future of work in a world changed by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. During the critical pandemic, the operations of mostly all the companies from home led to a new generation of magnitude, potency and connectivity. Many business leaders worldwide discussed what had changed in different ways of communication and how to use the office space soon. The workers who were doing operations from home during the pandemic had a considerable advantage. They were fortunate as they did not lose their jobs as many workers lost their jobs during the pandemic days.
Importance of Work from Home Practice
During the critical pandemic, the operations of mostly all the companies from home led to a new generation of magnitude, potency and connectivity. Many business leaders worldwide discussed what had changed in different ways of communication and how to use the office space soon. The companies hold trust, privilege, and new leadership styles for ensuring flexibility in the working environment. This pandemic has become a very critical changer of the game for different companies and how they used to work.
Many big companies, such as PayPal, Salesforce, social media giant Facebook and Google, have vastly extended the working from a remote area until the upcoming summer. Whereas Fujitsu, the tech firm located in Japan, is trying to bisect its office space and give more than 70,000 of its flexible workers to work from home. According to stats, nearly half of the workers working in the U.S. still want to continue operating from their own homes even after the pandemic gets over (Karabag, 2020). The workers who were doing operations that were done from home during the pandemic times had a huge advantage as they were very much lucky as they did not lose their jobs as many workers lost their jobs during pandemic days. However, this working remotely does not always work with everyone in different aspects of a company.
Increment of the Engagement and the Productivity of the Workers
The productivity of the workers of different companies has gone up. Instead, there might be some communication problems with the companies with their workers. Now, during this pandemic day, the companies' workers have got what the company's demand is and what they can achieve for the company. Now, the workers think of themselves to be very effective for the company. According to recent stats, more than 68% of the total public working in different companies now prefer to work in a high model of flexible working, if not possible, then every week at least three or two days they want to work from their homes. However, after the pandemic, the situation is reversed; the scenario has changed drastically. The modulation of the clients has been proven to be very much successful (Kaurand Sharma, 2020). The embracing of the modulation of virtualization has created many openings in bringing the required person when required. It also helped to open up a lot of limitless possibilities. The modulation of the clients of different companies are getting very much successful with the different levels of collaboration. As the modulations of the clients are totally on a virtual basis, the companies can quickly get the experts of the field from any part of the world to deal with any types of problems.
Increased the Efficiency and Inclusiveness of Communication
As one may not be successful in talking with their respected co-worker of the company in person, many platforms for collaboration and conferencing of videos such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom have taken place to do this work, that will help the workers to look at each other and discuss the necessary things all together at the same platform. Many ways like this have been discovered, which will help the workers have good communication and collaboration with others, which is a very positive way of working. The discussions of the virtual field have smoothed the field very much for the shy workers and do not feel pleasant in talking with others in person. The discussions are now very systematic, and the work that is done is much better than before (Kumar and Dwivedi, 2020). The shy workers do not need to spend much time making instant relations in the workspace they are working in. As a result, the workers are deliberately doing good work and giving an excellent output to the company, and they also are giving out good presentations while working online.
Hierarchies in the Companies Are Getting Compressed
By the operation based from the homes, it has fractured the tradition of the company's hierarchy and the vaults, making the company's workers much more efficient. The different layers of the companies have been brought down with different types of work based on the project given to the company or the company's team (Liwanag, 2017). Many companies have introduced a more efficient process of cross-functional work projects to bring a new working method. The efficiency of the work is very much boosted by the latest method of operation. The different decisions made in the company are much quicker. It also helps in the involvement of many company workers to work together as a team.
Transforming the Space of Work into an Innovative and a Collaborative Hub
In many companies, whether it may be big or small, working in the office physically is also needed at this point. Starting from training the new group of workers to get together, there are still many things that work very well in the ambience of an office. Nevertheless, many people assume that working full-time remotely does not work correctly on a long-term basis (Ratten, 2020). Over time, employees of different companies will find that many things are missing from getting together, discussing and sharing new innovative ideas or any problems with teammates. Also, to look at other company co-workers' ideas and know whether there is anything that we can extract and implement. One day can come where there is a total remote way of operating the work in the entire world. However, for the growth of the new age of technologies to research and develop the workspace of the companies will be the ideal place for learning new things and getting together with other people.
Requirement of a Critical Way of Planning
For making the prime and safe use of a company's workspace, it is necessary to have a new layer of arrangement that will take care of having the appropriate personnel at the correct period. Suppose a company wants to make their working very organized and critically adapt to all the working models. A more creative way of thinking needs to be made for creating a room for making a good conversation that used to take place before the pandemic. It can be very beneficial for the company to plan different sets of meanings for different teams in the office with a new group of workers to discuss and analyze the work or topic given to them.
Requirement of the Managers of the Company for Fulfilling the Needs of the Teams
It is a very much different experience of working in the workspace of the companies as it has a very significant workflow experience, and all the needs required by any of the company's workers are easily being fulfilled for doing any task (Ravalli and Musumeci, 2020). The companies' managers will face an entirely new type of consequence, from managing a worker who is underperforming the work given at their homes to welcoming a new member who has recently joined the office. So, the latest generations of managers need to be very flexible and good at what they are doing as many things depend on what they are doing as they play a critical role for the company.
Emergence of New Styles of Leadership Skills
The latest leadership theory has been developed so that the leaders of different companies can better understand their co-workers in the company or their teams. The new way of leadership drastically increases the output of the workers as well as the morals of the workers working in the company (Ravalli and Musumeci, 2020). The previous way of working was when a worker came into the office, worked there, and then left when the work was done. Nevertheless, the leaders in this process used to hand over their responsibilities to their teams. The leader needs to have much communication with his teammates and other workers working together in the place of the work.
Communication Is the Path of Working in the Current Model
The leaders of different companies need to work in a new way of telecommunications and work that is based on trust for communicating very actively and on a widespread basis with the company's workers. They very much need to be clear about what they want from the company's workers, what the goals are and what they need to do. The thing that has not changed after the pandemic is the one-on-one meeting, defining the path to indicate the performance of the worker, different processes of planning a high and calculated plan on which the workers of the company will work and follow different effective ways to improve the performance of the work that is going on in the company.
Advantages of Work from Home
There are many advantages of working from home, some of those are given below:
Flexibility in the schedules. Those working from home can easily take breaks whenever they feel like they do not hurry to end up with the calls of their family members at the time they are calling (Schoenenberger and Ramez, 2021). They can also eat their food at any place and time when they want to.
Customization in the work environment. The workers can easily set up the noise level the way they want to (Alon et al., 2020). They can keep their rooms quiet as loud as they want. They can listen to music if they want to listen to in the speakers to keep a good rhythm or flow in working.
Ability to wear cozy clothes. The employees working from their homes can wear mostly anything they want to be comfortable in their homes. They need not wear formal clothes that are tight and uncomfortable to wear.
Making calls gets easy. When someone is working at home, it is easy for them to make calls to anyone they want (Setyawanand Lestari, 2020). They now do not need to go to the conference rooms for calling, or the environment is not that much noise, except there is a bit of noise if there are any types of kids in their homes.
There will be no distraction. All the chatter and illogical chatter can be easily avoided, all the debates that are good for nothing can be ignored, as well as the scolding of the bosses can be easily avoided by the employees who are working from their homes.
Saving money. As the employees are working from their homes, they do not need to spend money on travelling to the office up and down and the money for lunch and other things they used to eat in the office.
Traffic can easily be avoided. The employees who work from their homes do not need to travel for long hours through that hectic traffic on the roads or need not get late because of crowded traffic signals.
Ability to spend much time with the family. The employees working from their homes can easily give much time to their family and can be there with the family if someone is not well or someone needs them at that moment.
Disadvantages of Work from Home
As there are so many advantages of working from home, there are also many disadvantages of working from home, some of those are given below:
Impact on the willpower of the employees. The employees who work from their homes lose their willpower to work as they think the work will be done and end up doing other things and then their work is not complete, and they need to work for some extra hours.
Difficult to be in a routine. A routine does not impact the employees who are working from their homes. They do not do anything at the correct time and do not finish the work given to them appropriately.
Missing crucial and texts from the office. When the employees work from their homes, they generally keep their mobile phones in silent mode (SINGH, 2020). In this case, they may miss many important calls from the office or some pings in the phones of required things of work.
Problems in communicating. When the employees work from their homes, they may have any problem they cannot face and need someone or the team leader to fix it. At this point, it may be tough to communicate and solve the problem that needed to be faced.
Taking a nap. As the employees are working from their homes, many feel lazy seeing the bed near them and take several power naps that may take many of their working times and not complete the work assigned to them.
Boredom. The employees who work from their homes are really getting bored as they continuously work from their homes due to null socializing. They could not see the co-employees they were working with for an extended period and were away from the office's ambience for a long time.
Slow workflow. When the employees work from their homes, they do not have that much work-energy; in the office, some energy helps them work very well.
No dual monitor to work with. When the company's employees are typically working from their homes, they do not have any option of working with two monitors at a time as it is not provided to them by the company (Stevenson et al., 2021). It is sometimes challenging to work without a second monitor when someone has many tasks to do simultaneously.
Problems with Wi-Fi issues and network issues. When the employees work from their homes, they do not have so much speed in their Wi-Fi as the Wi-Fi everyone has in there is not as speedy as the Wi-Fi or the network of the company's workplace.
Long waiting for a reply from the other side. When the employees work from their homes, if they have any problem that they need to answer very quickly, work may get delayed because of some gap in the communication with the other person they have asked the question.
Lack of teamwork. As the employees work from their homes, they very much lack communication between their team, which may lead to many types of problems while completing their projects that need to be done as a team.
Conclusion
At the end of this essay, it can be finally concluded that at the critical pandemic times, the operations of mostly all the companies from home had led to beginning a new generation of magnitude, potency, as well as connectivity. Many of the business leaders worldwide discussed what had changed in different ways of communication and how to use the office space soon. The companies hold trust, privilege, and new leadership styles for ensuring flexibility in the working environment. Many big companies, such as PayPal, Salesforce, the social media giant Facebook and Google, have hugely extended the working from a remote area until the upcoming summer. Whereas Fujitsu, the tech firm located in Japan, is trying to bisect its office space and give more than 70,000 of its flexible workers to work from home. According to recent stats, more than 68% of the total public working in different companies now prefer to work in a high model of flexible working, if not possible, then every week at least three or two days they want to work from their homes. Nevertheless, the situation is totally the inverse; the scenario has changed drastically.