Remote/home offices ensure better work and life balance

Vineet Mahajan 
Director-India Business – Unilumin

Organizations understand that with the adoption of technologies like Video calls, Video conferencing (VC) systems, Zoom/ MS Teams/VC263/Webex meets, daily physical presence at the office is not mandatory, visiting the office once or twice a week will serve the purpose. So a hybrid model will definitely be seen in future as something which saves time and money for the organisations as well as better work life balance for the employees.

The strategies to keep the distributed workforce engaged while also driving business profitability at the same time are -
•    Morning online interaction at a stipulated time or morning conference with all workforce of a department by a department head.
•    Time to time reporting to see that business objectives are properly understood and results being reviewed.
•    Online training/goals meetings to have all the employees on the same page.

With the exponential scale improvement in telecom and Wi-Fi networks, we see expanded usage of VC platforms like Zoom/ MS teams/ Webex which can be easily accessed by the workforce through browsers over mobile handsets. We also foresee sharing work desks at the office or virtual offices soon. This will save money and space for organizations as well. Remote/home offices therefore enable flexible work timings which also ensures better work life balance.