For business profitability, the key is to keep the entire workforce engaged and motivated

Sanjay Dutta
Director – Sales & Alliances, ITS Technology Solution 

Remote work – Key trends & challenges

The Key Trends are:

·  Hybrid working (WFH, office, café, Resorts / vacation workplace)
·  Selective hours working
·  Specific permanent WFH profiles explored
·  Readiness for all kind of WFH / remote location scenarios
·  Lots of people wanting to come back to office as usual
·  Some people would want to WFH only

The drivers are:

Uncertainty for pandemic period of impact, people unwilling to travel and meet face to face, advantage of remote working

The challenges are:

In the absence of face-to-face conversations, communicating thoroughly, and effectively is the key to working well.
Person to person usual relation building that we have been used to, specifically older people

Strategies for business profitability

The key is to keep the entire workforce engaged and motivated. Like in a physical office environment, Zoom virtual office has been setup for all with different departments for virtual office, we meet F2F virtually every day at the start of the day.
Availability of public declared Zoom office, which is a click away in office timings for customers, vendors and employees.

Future of work and workforce

The future of work describes changes in how work will get done over the next decade, influenced by technological, generational and social shifts. Need to constantly evaluate employee skills/lacking skills. In order to get ready for the future, it is important to have a clear idea of what skills your employees have now v/s what is needed to be future ready. It is a must to design new learning opportunities, recruit for the future, re-skill and transfer skills to say the least. 
Newer avenues in which offices will work and interact / be available to the outside world, the newer paradigm becoming available to the world which would have taken possibly decades.