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Flexible work is in high demand. Actually, the research by Apollo Technical found that 72 percent of people prefer flexible work environments over working from home.

Companies are seeing tangible benefits. The productivity has increased by 47% and the performance has improved for the employees ( 40% less defects in the high-quality of work) and higher profits (with an average of 11000 dollars savings per year for a half-time remote employee) This makes flexible working seem more like a prerequisite instead of a bonus for employees.

If you're thinking about ways to design flexible work schedules or increase the ways your employees communicate remotely, then you've come to the right spot.

In this article we'll examine some of the important components of flexible work, shifting expectations of employees, and also offer suggestions on how you can prepare your organization to meet the demands of the future using videos-powered tools.

What's flexible?

Flexible work arrangements allow employees to pick the place and hours they work. Research from SHRM indicates the increased flexibility of employees has a myriad of advantages including higher engagement and retention in addition to lower overhead and improved life balance. Two types of work flexibility:

Flexibility in location

The flexibility of location allows employees to work from an office or workplace. Most common types of location flexibilities are remote work, hybrid working, as well as telecommuting. An survey conducted by SHRM for 2021 found that 30% of employed Americans like the idea of working at home, or performing some form of remote work If their employers don't offer that choice, they'll look to find an employment opportunity that offers the option.

Flexible scheduling

Flexibility in scheduling depends on employees' ability to arrange their work hours outside of the traditional 5 days per week routine of 9-5. Most common forms of flexible schedules are:

• Workweeks compressed
• Shift work
• Flextime
• Job sharing
• Part-time schedules

Our work methods are changing

It was reported that the US Labor Department reported more than 47 million Americans were laid off in 2021. It was an unprecedented movement of workers.

From dental facilities to petrol stations, the unavailability of laborers is forcing companies to reconsider how they think about the job. 64 percent of those who participated in the recent Pew survey said they felt uncomfortable coming back to their workplaces and 57% opted to work at home because of COVID-related issues. According to the Harvard Business Review reported that 36 percent of those in the survey would search for alternatives to working when presented with an option one that was hybrid or remote and 6% were willing to quit outright regardless of whether a new position was lined up.

Uncertainty in the economic climate, change in the employment market, and shifting expectations of workers is forcing employers think about the ways and locations employees work.
 
  Recent research shows that flexibility at work can boost hiring, retention, satisfaction, in addition to employee productivity.. Gartner found 43 percent of respondents who took part on survey Digital Worker Experience Survey said flexibility in working hours led them to be more productive. Three-quarters of the respondents reported that getting their work done without needing to travel boosted their performance.

There are four ways you can create an atmosphere of flexibility for employees

The workplace is evolving . The ofboarding procedure, and training facilitation and management teams must use virtual communication, training, and engagement technology for their workplace.

These are the four steps to establish a flexibility for your workers. They can also help you ensure that your employees are productive.

1. Engage employees

As your workers don't gather more frequently than those in traditional work environments, it is important to find other ways to prioritize employee engagement. 70% of people think that they're more productive working when they work in an environment that they are valued. 88% of employees at top companies in their industry feel heard while only 62% of employees in financially struggling companies are they are heard.

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2. Design a virtual Onboarding process and training processes

If work is shifted to the workplace, education is also experiencing changes too. Despite remote working or maybe because of it - onboarding and education are becoming more important. Around 97% of workers are being incorporated into remote meetings. It is the obligation for the organization to design simple and efficient training plans.

"Technicians do not always wish to make the trip to our centers for learning, but it's not a "one-size that fits all" method for our varied number of learners...What we began to accomplish was to use the best content for education from the classroom and put it online." Steve Hamaday, Virtual Training Manager at Axalta

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3. External and internal communication

"With , we launched a weekly live stream for our clients across the globe, even during the middle of an outbreak, which took just weeks and not months. The whole process was run via the platform, working online with our team and our agency. We launched multiple times per week, and in a range of different languages." Alvin Mudun, Senior Web Product Manager for Zendesk in EMEA

4. Think about investing in tools to facilitate remote collaboration

If your staff members have to travel across different areas and different time zones, your software can determine their efficiency and help motivate.

Giving more choices for using video can have a tangible influence on your staff. It is reported that the State of Workplace Communication report found video-forward workforces benefit from an increase of 75% of employees who report high levels of engagement and improved team cohesion. Collaboration is the term used to describe the communication among team members and using video technology can help make communications more effective and more welcoming by:

• Better employee engagement
• Increased productivity
• Anytime, anywhere.
• More Transparency
• Easy-to-use training libraries and resources

   The original text was written by Clara Wang and updated by Bianca Galvez on July 26 2022.  

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