Change in workplace culture: working from home as a model for the future? {Trend! study}

I am home-from-home, convinced that the desire to save my daily commute to work was one of the reasons why I started my own business well over 10 years ago. Permanent employment and work at home? At that time unthinkable. Today, on the other hand, this is completely in line with the trend. That Companys But I also see the advantages of the HomeOffice, but I also consider it critical: the focus is on cost savings.

To feel like a boss has become obsolete

My former Executive was one of the old school: someone who apparently believed that people weren't doing a decent job if he couldn't see them doing it. Or just acting as a boss feel could, albeit enough Employees there were.

If you sat him alone at home in front of his computer, it would probably be a big ego-Problem been for him: how should he have played boss?

2020: 6,7 desks for 10 employees

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According to the “Workplace of the Future” report of the IT-Citrix Systems company, there will no longer be a desk for every employee in 2020. Instead, there will be 6 different end devices that the employees have to bring with them.

Office space worldwide will be reduced by 14 percent. And then there are only ten 6,7 desks. For its investigation, Citrix 1.900 interviewed senior IT decision makers in 19 countries.

Undisturbed or cut off from information flow?

On the one hand, this has advantages for the employees: they save the way to work, theoretically they have more time for private things, for example, they can look after the children “on the side” and also concentrate on work because they are not distracted by office noise and chatty colleagues.

This is exactly where the hare comes in the pepper: precisely because they lack the gossip culture, they are cut off from the information flow despite all electronic communication media.

Mixing of work and private life

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This becomes critical when the actual purpose of the work suffers as a result: During research yesterday, I came across an intern who gave HumanCaps “home office” as a benefit of his employer. I wonder how he's supposed to learn something - sounds very cheap to me-Workplace for easier work.

In addition, the professional environment is increasingly shifting into the private sphere: the files are in the living room, you answer in the evening and on weekends eMailSwitching off and on is becoming increasingly difficult.

78% find the management of employees at home more difficult

But the trend towards home office, just listen and be amazed, is also a problem for companies, which is why not everyone is consistently enthusiastic about it.

The Workplace Survey study by personnel service provider Robert Half International shows: Of 1.770 personnel managers in 13 countries, 78 percent of those surveyed stated that Guide this employee is compared to in Office Present something or even clear more difficult.

14% do not allow home office at all

Around 40 percent of companies have acted accordingly and have already developed guidelines for successful cooperation, and 14 percent do not allow home office at all.

The main reason for the skepticism is Opinionsthat productive work requires the presence of the employee in the company and a lack of security when transferring data to an external computer.

The survey was conducted in May and June in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Dubai, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Singapore.

Tips for working from home

In order for the collaboration in the home office to work smoothly, companies and employees should make clear agreements:

1. Set clear goals: To ensure efficient work from home, clear goals and results should be determined in advance.
2. Develop guidelines: Clear, transparent rules help manage teams in which employees work both in the office and in the home office. Communicate the rules openly to all team members. In this way, you prevent possible prejudices against an alleged betterment of an employee.
3. Provide home office as an offer: Make it clear to your employees that home office is an alternative, but can in no way replace regular presence in the office or attendance at important appointments or team meetings.

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