5 Trends that Businesses Cannot Ignore

The future of work demands our attention as the COVID-19 pandemic shook things up in the workplace environment. The present and the future of the digital workforce is likely to see experiments in work models given the focus on digital talent and the on-demand workforce.

Against this backdrop of disruption and change, businesses will have to adopt these latest five trends as this will be the critical acceleration for transformation that they cannot ignore.

1. Bring your own environment (BYOE) into the remote workforce

The tremendous setback of recent times has led businesses to exponentially shifting towards a remote workforce . Not only has it sustained business continuity, but thereby it has given employees the flexibility and accessibility to be productive all the time. Bring-Your-Own-Environment gives employees the freedom to be reliant on the remote working system. To monitor productivity and ensure employee emotional well-being, businesses should see through the lens of human-centricity and drive a better employee experience.

2. Adopting Automation

Automation tools help to automate management activities and measure performance. Automation augments the efforts of the workforce to drive productivity and in fact, even facilitation creation of new job positions. The menial, routine nature of operations is efficiently handled through automated processes without errors. Likewise, employees are adjudged based on specific KPIs and assessed without bias through automated checks and triggers, reducing manual intervention.

3. The Future of Work is Hybrid.

The future of the workforce will have a hybrid/ blended workplace model to maintain mobility. The hybrid workplace model combines both remote and office work together, giving employees the flexibility to work in both environments. What the model does is, give employees access to complete individual tasks and yet use the office for collaborative tasks with peers and groups, making it the best of both worlds. Organizations will most adopt a hybrid work environment to support the needs of both the employer and employees.

4. Cloud Computing Will Bond with Facilities and Operations

The future of the workspace will be aligned with cloud computing as one of the biggest Digital workplace trends. Cloud computing has enabled businesses to stop investing in costly infrastructure that could turn out redundant in some years. Instead, businesses can already implement cloud computing in the workplace, with their data stored in secured cloud silos , helping authenticated users to access information on the go, anytime, featuring improved cloud security too.

5. Creating a compelling employee experience

When employees work remotely, you need to showcase periodic feedback and training to keep them motivated. Employee and service management tools can allow employees to access data and respond quickly to departments and evaluations. Companies can host training and development workshops and modules to train employees at their own pace. Employees can use social media systems to voice their ideas and opinions related to tasks and operations, ensuring a transparent workplace.

Conclusion

The workplace is now witnessing improved productivity, flexibility, cost management, and resource management. By choosing these digital workplace trends, businesses have become more resilient and flexible to turn insight into action and produce useful outcomes. This new working model could serve as a blueprint for the long-term and will surely be the new norm for many businesses in the foreseeable future.

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