The hybrid work culture opens opportunities for organisations

Prashant Jain
Founder & CEO, JNR Management Resources 

Remote work – Key trends & challenges

The adoption of remote work had been already growing at a fast pace in the last few years and the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions worldwide ended up highly accelerating its adoption. We have made a lot of valuable IT infrastructure investments to support our team members in working from home. We try to conduct all our internal and client meetings through digital channels and use highly secured and reliable software to do that. For some job roles whose work depends on office resources like development and production servers, we ensure high uptime with zero scopes of intrusion by restricting access to a very limited number of people and using our very own offering (IT Security Services) on the servers. We have also invested heavily in cloud technologies to ensure that the work deliverables are not impacted in any way.

Strategies for business profitability

Let’s unpack some widely used and effective employee engagement strategies:

•    Every company has its set of core values. By consistently promoting your company’s core values to the entire team, you’ll create a cohesive positive work culture and encourage your employees to form an emotional connection to your organization.

•    Providing employees opportunities to grow their skillset keeps them engaged.

•    Regularly showing employees that you recognize and appreciate their efforts is a simple gesture that goes a long way in making them feel valued.

•     Bringing employees into the fold as frequently as possible is a highly effective employee engagement strategy.

Future of work and workforce

The future of work is hybrid if not completely remote. To enable the workforce, companies are investing heavily in work from anywhere setup for employees. On one hand, it has helped companies save costs on physical infrastructure and rent among other amenities but also need to spend on hardware costs for each employee on the other hand if not done already. It also enables companies to hire talents from regions beyond their typical hiring zones and get immense value on that front. From a security standpoint, companies are investing in improving their server architecture, moving all their data repositories to the cloud, maintenance of access being done very diligently, maintaining and monitoring logs, signing up for long term contracts for IT Security Services to better prepare themselves for unforeseen circumstances.