Flexible working remains vital to business success

https://www.businessleader.co.uk/flexible-working-remains-vital-to-business-success/

Sridhar Iyengar, MD for Zoho Europe comments:

“Remote working, whether full time, hybrid part time, or ‘choose your own’ work from home model, has clearly become the operational structure of choice for many formerly full-time office based workplaces, and not just due to employee demand.

“Remote working has cost, efficiency and time-saving perks that many organisations are already capitalising on, and once certain implementation challenges are overcome, business leaders will be presented with even more opportunities, including a larger and more diverse recruitment pool. This is because hiring will no longer be contained to a certain location, allowing for equal opportunity regardless of gender, geography, socio-economic background or any previously limiting circumstances which presented barriers to recruitment.

“Purpose-built and cloud enabled remote working tools and applications, to help aid communication, workflows or in-document collaboration, for example, will provide the essential support and infrastructure to ease the mind of any remaining business leaders that are still apprehensive to make the jump to long term flexible working.

“What’s more, when transitioning to a flexible working culture, decision makers that attempt to replicate an office environment from a digital setting will inevitably run into issues relating to stunted creativity, proactivity and employee engagement. Instead, we must play to the strengths enabled by remote work, this might include increasing personal autonomy for employees, allowing them to take regular breaks away from screens, and shift away from traditional 9-5 working hours.”