According to a study by the consulting firm Readiness Global, carried out only on workers in Argentina, in May, both the face-to-face and remote work modalities present disadvantages from the perspective of the employees.
Among those who perform remote tasks, 32% mentioned as a disadvantage the impossibility of separating between work schedules and schedules for leisure or personal obligations, 30% pointed to a sedentary lifestyle and the podium of the three main complexities is completed with saturation technology, also with 30% positive responses.
25% indicated that “when you are at home you work more”; 22% mentioned the lack of physical space and 21% the lower concentration in the home.
Likewise, those who returned to work in person identified as main disadvantages the increase in expenses (transportation, meals, clothing, footwear, among others) and travel time with 35% of positive responses each; followed by the fact of having less time for contact with the family (31%),
They also pointed out as complexities derived from “attendance” the feeling that in the office “more time is wasted” marked by 25% of those surveyed, the difficulty to get up early (23%), and to manage their own time and breaks (21%).
“It is perhaps easy to speak of ‘the return to presence’ or ‘the end of virtuality’. I think they are somewhat absolutist terms that do not allow us to see what is happening underneath. both workers and companies want to have resolutions in order to move forward, so it is important to be able to make each one of them visible and value it”, analyzed Juan Galo Martinez, CEO of Readiness Global.
The report also investigates a series of aspects that have to do with what they call a new company-worker relationship that includes, for example, constant training and communication strategies and tools.
In this sense, the cybersecurity company Megatech released the list of the 10 most common queries that reach the help desks of company systems personnel from workers who perform tasks remotely.
Inconveniences with the virtual private network, keys and passwords, whitening and unlocking, problems in user profiles or synchronization of applications, are just some of the queries that inevitably reach the help desks.
In this new company-employee relationship, “organizations have the need to adapt their value proposals to the employee and to work hard on the values transmitted by their employer brand, as well as to contemplate the flexibility arrangements that they are going to offer to its collaborators to attract and retain talent”, considered the CEO of the consulting firm Randstad Argentina, Andrea Ávila.
This consultancy reported that in Argentina 82% of workers consider it very important to have flexibility in terms of working hours, while 71% consider it very important to have flexibility in relation to their workplace, such as the option of being able to work from home or even from another city.
43% of workers indicated that they would not accept a job that does not give them flexibility to manage their schedule.
In the latest edition of the Randstad Workmonitor, they observed a “mismatch” between the expectations and desires for greater flexibility and the possibilities offered by their current job, since “only 43% of the survey participants in Argentina affirm that their work provides flexibility in terms of workplace, while only 55% of respondents say that their work allows time flexibility”.
Source: Ambito
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