{"id":443,"date":"2022-10-04T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/?p=443"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:09:48","slug":"the-challenges-of-hybrid-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/2022\/10\/04\/the-challenges-of-hybrid-working\/","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of hybrid working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in early 2020, organisations were forced into significant changes in how they operated. We explored in our\u00a0July edition last year<\/a>\u00a0how firms were beginning to think about the longer term implementation of hybrid systems.\u00a0Since then, the challenges of such setups have become apparent.
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In an article in the Financial Times,\u00a0Stefan Stern<\/a>\u00a0outlines how companies are still finding it hard to maximise performance while attempting to balance home and office working. He argues that the complexities of the issue are so great that many are still in the process of trying to figure out how to integrate hybrid working into their operations. While some are fully committed to hybrid working, others, such as Mike Ashley’s\u00a0Frasers Group<\/a>, have ended their flexible working policy, stating that staff work best in an office environment.
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The impact on employees<\/strong>
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Despite hybrid working being touted as the\u00a0best of both worlds<\/a>, giving employees greater flexibility while continuing in their current roles, time has proven that this is not universal. Emotional exhaustion among hybrid employees has risen according to an article in\u00a0BBC Worklife<\/a>, driven by constantly changing daily routines, digital presenteeism, and a blurring of the boundaries between home and work.
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Martine Haas<\/a>\u00a0of the Wharton School also highlights the specific negative impacts hybrid working may have on women. She argues that the difficulties women face in the workplace regarding access to mentoring, questions around their commitment and getting their voices heard are exacerbated by hybrid working.
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Deteriorating employer-employee relations<\/strong>
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As well as deteriorating mental health, staff in hybrid situations no longer seem to be as loyal to their employers. With workers spending less time in the office, they develop\u00a0less of an attachment<\/a>\u00a0to their colleagues and their employer as a whole.
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Alongside this, unable to monitor completely what their employees are doing, employers are suffering from what\u00a0Mike Thackray<\/a>\u00a0calls \u201ca fear of not being in control.\u201d As a result, employers are trying to get their workers back in the office more frequently, or are actioning a complete return to the office, now that COVID restrictions are long gone. This lack of trust from their employer, along with the\u00a0inability to retain work\/life balance<\/a>\u00a0they may have attained, creates a toxic work environment that employees don\u2019t want to be in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world in early 2020, organisations were forced into significant changes in how they operated. We explored in our\u00a0July edition last year\u00a0how firms were beginning to think about the longer term implementation of hybrid systems.\u00a0Since then, the challenges of such setups have become apparent.\u00a0In an article in the Financial… Continue reading The challenges of hybrid working<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[56,80,24,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viewshub.com\/theloop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}