The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Many organizations are transforming their workplaces into hybrid environments. This new way of working is a two-way street – in addition to organizations offering hybrid work and providing resources and support, employees must carefully consider when it is best to work in the office and when it is best to work virtually in order to make this arrangement successful. In addition to weighing personal needs, employees must think through the needs of the clients, team and organization when deciding where to work. Here are things to consider when deciding where, when and how to work each day:
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The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
As more organizations are moving towards a hybrid work environment, they must be more intentional about ways to build connection and collaboration. Hybrid work has the potential to create the most optimal work environment, bringing together and leveraging the best of both in-person and virtual work. However, hybrid work will only be successful with intentionality, and organizations must be deliberate and focused on building control, connection, collaboration, culture and contribution – take a look at our Action Step, Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of the 5Cs, which provides specific tips on how to do so. We now want to focus on how to make meetings in a hybrid work environment as engaging, productive and equitable as possible, as meetings are a regular source of workplace control, connection, collaboration, culture, and contribution. Here are our recommendations:
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Organizations have become significantly more open to workplace flexibility since the pandemic, many adopting hybrid work environments, hiring a greater number of workers in flexible locations, and embracing other forms of flexibility such as reduced hours, compressed work weeks, job sharing, flexible start-ends times, sabbaticals, and asynchronous time. Many organizations found an unexpected rise in productivity during the pandemic, leading to this change. However, along with greater productivity came greater burn-out for many employees who were working longer hours with less personal time. There were no longer boundaries between work and personal life. As organizations begin to emerge from the pandemic and develop plans for the future of work, leaders need to promote well-being by helping workers regain boundaries. Here are our recommendations:
Action Step: Where, When & How to Work In A Hybrid Environment
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Many organizations are transforming their workplaces into hybrid environments. This new way of working is a two-way street – in addition to organizations offering hybrid work and providing resources and support, employees must carefully consider when it is best to work in the office and when it is best to work virtually in order to make this arrangement successful. In addition to weighing personal needs, employees must think through the needs of the clients, team and organization when deciding where to work. Here are things to consider when deciding where, when and how to work each day:
Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center
To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
Action Step – Hybrid Meetings: Experience, Expectation & Engagement
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
As more organizations are moving towards a hybrid work environment, they must be more intentional about ways to build connection and collaboration. Hybrid work has the potential to create the most optimal work environment, bringing together and leveraging the best of both in-person and virtual work. However, hybrid work will only be successful with intentionality, and organizations must be deliberate and focused on building control, connection, collaboration, culture and contribution – take a look at our Action Step, Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of the 5Cs, which provides specific tips on how to do so. We now want to focus on how to make meetings in a hybrid work environment as engaging, productive and equitable as possible, as meetings are a regular source of workplace control, connection, collaboration, culture, and contribution. Here are our recommendations:
Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center
To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
Action Step – Workplace Flexibility & Well-Being: From Balance to Boundaries
The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.
Organizations have become significantly more open to workplace flexibility since the pandemic, many adopting hybrid work environments, hiring a greater number of workers in flexible locations, and embracing other forms of flexibility such as reduced hours, compressed work weeks, job sharing, flexible start-ends times, sabbaticals, and asynchronous time. Many organizations found an unexpected rise in productivity during the pandemic, leading to this change. However, along with greater productivity came greater burn-out for many employees who were working longer hours with less personal time. There were no longer boundaries between work and personal life. As organizations begin to emerge from the pandemic and develop plans for the future of work, leaders need to promote well-being by helping workers regain boundaries. Here are our recommendations:
Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center
To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.