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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:
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Action Step – ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES NECESSARY 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.
As more organizations are adopting hybrid work, they need to enhance infrastructure support to ensure success. In addition to training, mentoring, on-boarding, technology and affinity groups, organizations need to make sure to include additional management/administrative support to properly foster professional experiences in a hybrid work setting. Organizations can hire additional professionals to accomplish these responsibilities and/or designate existing employees with these responsibilities if they have the time, interest and skillset. Here are the Alliance’s recommendations on the types of roles/responsibilities needed in a hybrid environment:
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To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
Action Step – TIPS FOR INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS 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 instituting a hybrid work environment post-pandemic, in which employees will spend some time working in the office and some time working from home. The pandemic has forced organizations that never considered remote work to allow for more flexibility. While hybrid work is definitely a silver lining from the pandemic, organizations will need to develop the right infrastructure and employees need to understand and implement new work behaviors in order to succeed in this new environment.
We created a number of action steps focused on ways organizations should create infrastructure in order to lead to successful hybrid work environments, including: Creating a Successful Onboarding and Integration Program, Building Your Training Program to Support Your Post-Pandemic Hybrid Work Environment, Maintaining Mentoring & Connection in a Hybrid Environment, and Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of 5Cs By Building the Right Flex Infrastructure. Now we want to focus on ways employees can take control of their careers and succeed in a hybrid work environment as the rules of engagement will be different. Here are the Alliance’s 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.