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Essential Questions to ask Your Employees while planning Hybrid Work Model

An additional organisational issue that has arisen as a result of the epidemic is hybrid work. Several people had a difficult time making the adjustment to working from home, but many others benefited greatly from it. Workplace flexibility is becoming increasingly important to today's workforce. As employees prepare to return to work (or not), the hybrid work model has grown in favour. While your interns were training remotely, now they may have to work from office. To get the desired results, ask them right questions on what they want and feel about hybrid work.

Essential Questions to ask Your Employees while planning Hybrid Work Model
Surveys for hybrid working will assist to develop your work-from-anywhere strategy. These surveys will not only help you current team but will help you in hiring the right interns too. While you hire them, it would be only wise to get their inputs on Hybrid internships. The goal of hybrid work is to get the best of both online and in-person work while minimising the bad things about each. During the epidemic, most of us had to work from home, which was good for many businesses.
But it's clear now that we need to get back to the way things were before the pandemic.

As a result, hybrid working is gaining appeal in a post-pandemic environment. Here are some questions you might want to add in your Hybrid Working Employee Survey.
1.    What is your ideal work-life balance between virtual and workplace tasks?
Employees who do not have an appropriate workplace or who thrive on human connection will choose to work in an office. Others who are content at home may want to work remotely the majority of the time.
With a five-day work week, it seems improbable that there will be a 50/50 ratio between remote and office work. As a result, this question might help you predict the number of team members that will return. You can accordingly design your workspace set up.

2.     Do you have all the digital tools you need to do your work no matter where you are?
Internet connectivity is essential, as are digital tools such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Slack and whatnot. An employee must have access to just about everything, irrespective of their position. There ought to be a smooth progression between the two.

3.    Are you satisfied with the amount of discussions you presently attend (virtual, audio, or in person)?
The term "Zoom fatigue" has been in the news a lot. Employees are getting tired of looking at themselves and their co-workers in an awkwardly on the screen.
If your team doesn't like how often you have meetings, you could switch between video, audio, and in-person meetings to keep them interested. Some companies let employees skip meetings, and those who don't show up can catch up by reading notes.

4.    Do you feel cut off from the entire workforce?
Remote working may create a split between people, teams, and the larger organisation. One of the best things about hybrid working is that it brings back real-time involvement in the business while keeping some of the freedoms that come with remote work.
Employees who are feeling isolated at home must make special efforts to increase inclusion. Otherwise, you risk low performance and more personnel turnover.

5.     What can we do to strengthen social ties?
Most people have lived at their current address for more than a year, so even small changes can have a big effect. It could be a roundtable discussion at the office once a week or once a month, short breaks online, or even a regular meeting in the morning.

6.    What worries you about hybrid work?
There might be some fascinating responses that haven't been explored. Understanding and dealing with possible challenges early on can help guarantee a seamless transition to hybrid working.

7.    Do you believe that not being in the workplace full-time will impede your development and advancement?
Concerns have been raised that remote employees stagnate as a result of their seclusion. This could be both in terms of developing valuable skills and being acknowledged for advancement.
Employers should be conscious of this notion. Make sure that hybrid working will not have a detrimental influence on their workers' careers.

8.    What improvements do you believe we could make to our hybrid working arrangements?
There is always room for improvement, and this provides an opportunity for employees to provide answers to their possible problems. Listen to them carefully and think what can be done to implement those.

While this is not a full list of questions, it will cover all the important points and provide you with a foundation from which to grow. Getting back to office after a long period of remote working is not going to be easy. But as an employer, including your new hires in the discussion can help you immensely in getting the right answers.
 
 

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