Having flexibility at work is not only for brand spanking new mothers. Take a marketer who works with We Are Rosie, Catherine Traffis. Traffis was in a horrific automobile accident that left her fortunate to be alive and contending with neurological situations that have an effect on the best way she will work. However her well being challenges don’t change the truth that she is an excellent author and editor. She is at present contributing her skills to one of many greatest corporations on the earth whereas working from residence and managing all aspects of her life.
The way forward for work has been a scorching subject since Covid-19 modified so many individuals’s day-to-day work lives. Most agreed that it could look totally different; extra versatile, extra human-centered and extra centered on getting the work accomplished slightly than on the place, when and the way it will get accomplished.
And but, the Kyte Child story just isn’t distinctive. In response to a latest piece in Inc., distant employees are 35% extra doubtless to be laid off than those that work hybrid or in-office. And, when Wayfair introduced layoffs earlier this month, executives mentioned distant employees had been extra more likely to be let go.
In final 12 months’s Rosie Report examine, 54% of entrepreneurs mentioned they weren’t consulted earlier than their firm determined to return to the workplace. Maybe there’s a motive for that: 77% of survey respondents mentioned they like to work remotely. One other latest ballot discovered that 55% of totally distant U.S. employees mentioned they’re keen to take a pay lower to earn a living from home.
My colleague, We Are Rosie CEO Jeff Levick, likes to say, “Some enterprise leaders worth workplace house greater than folks. Profitable companies double down on their folks.” I couldn’t agree extra.
The way forward for work isn’t AI and it isn’t workplace buildings with free lunch and butts in seats. The way forward for work is folks. It at all times has been and it at all times can be.