Balancing work | Workforce Flexibility: the Solution for thriving HR

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant amount of the workforce working from home.

Many businesses and organisations haven’t had their employees visiting their offices since the beginning of the year and many employees have found themselves working more flexibly in terms of hours or days. This, often associated with balancing work and other responsibilities such as homeschooling or childcare.

Even though flexibility in the workplace is increasingly popular in the modern working place and across different industries, some businesses and organisations wouldn’t find it necessary to offer their workforce flexibility in terms of when to work, where to work, how to work etc, before the pandemic. Many were simply uncertain of the benefits and believed it to be costly and unproductive.

With that said, if there’s one positive that has come out of the ongoing pandemic, it’s that it has put an emphasis on the conversation about flexibility in the workplace.