By implementing your own return-to-work survey, you can gain valuable insights into how your team is feeling and how best to accommodate them. (Photo: Shutterstock) When the world began to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic over 15 months ago, HR leaders were in "war rooms" with CEOS, scrambling to accommodate their teams' needs in a remote-work environment. While some companies had offered occasional work-from-home options prior to the shutdown, very few operated with a completely remote workforce one hundred percent of the time. Add to that uncertainty about how long the situation would last, what financial impact the pandemic would have on business and the fears and personal anxiety we all faced, and it quickly amounted to a career-defining and life-altering challenge for many leaders.
Related: Taking the lead: The evolving role of HR professionals Now that we're approaching the post-pandemic period, companies are finding that the return to office is not just a matter of returning to working life as it was. In fact, the traditional office will never look the same again. According to a study published in Human Resources Executive, 65% work remotely full-time and 58% said that they would "absolutely" look for a new job if their current one didn't allow them to continue working remotely. While 33% of employees said they'd be interested in a hybrid work-from-home/in-office arrangement, only two percent said they'd like to return to the in-office model on a full-time basis.
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