In the Asia-Pacific Work Transformation Summit held earlier, Ricky Kapur, head of Zoom’s Asia-Pacific region, explained that despite the gradual slowdown of the epidemic, companies in the Asia-Pacific region have gradually reopened their offices, and many employers also hope that employees will return to the office. The office model can be restored to the situation before the epidemic, but with many employees already familiar with the hybrid office model, it is obvious that companies must also regard the hybrid office as the new normal.
In this event, in addition to Ricky Kapur sharing the recent changes in corporate office models in the Asia-Pacific region, Qualtrics Chief Product Officer Jay Choi and others explained how to use technology and listen to employees’ opinions to establish a business that can maintain operation and growth. , and allow employees to continue working in a more resilient and safe manner.
In a recent Qualtrics survey, many people prefer to work in a hybrid mode with higher flexibility than to fully adopt remote or fully revert to physical work, which means that most employees prefer to achieve higher levels of work and life. balance. However, if the company cannot provide enough flexible working models, it may lead to employees choosing to switch to jobs that can provide higher flexibility, resulting in the problem of brain drain.
Therefore, in Zoom’s observation, companies must listen to employees’ needs in a more effective way in the post-epidemic era. Even if it is still necessary to return to the office, companies should still provide appropriate flexibility so that employees can work through a more suitable work mode. . And companies should also think about what kind of work mode is suitable for them, and at the same time, what technological methods can be used to allow employees to have greater work flexibility, so that employees can use flexible work styles to develop their expertise.
In the hybrid office mode, how to make it easier for employees working remotely and returning to the office to work together, hold meetings to discuss matters, and eliminate time and space constraints through the network service platform, and even allow the use of different languages. The barrier-free communication and interaction of employees across regions will also become a future issue for the company, so that employees who work in different forms can easily interact.
Judging from the current trend, companies must not only conceive a suitable flexible working model, but also must introduce more appropriate technological tools and resources in response to the post-epidemic work style. For example, employees can use the Internet under any circumstances. Participate in the meeting online, or reserve personal use of the office space through the Internet channel before returning to the office, or arrange the next meeting schedule, and when interacting through the online meeting, it is best to be able to talk face-to-face .