Will permanent Home Office be the New Normal?

It will not be a surprise that the return to the “normal” postpandered work routine will be very different from what you had before the virus arrived. The remote work, or “home office” is being applied in most companies and, as much research points out, has brought positive results.

Adaptation of companies

Remote work processes are totally different from usual, so all companies must adapt and change their processes so that home office is viable and effective.

According to a study by IPEA and IBGE , permanent remote work will be possible for 22.7% of occupations in Brazil. That is: one in five professions in Brazil can adopt the home office.

What do managers say?

A survey by Isae Business School points out that 80% of managers who adopted the home office, say they liked the new way of working. This means that perhaps the adoption, or permanence of remote work leaves - or has already left - of being a need for managers, becoming a choice, identifying the benefits and making the processes functional enough for the work to remain productive.

Opportunities

It is natural for the human being to focus more on problems and difficulties, but in the current economic scenario it is extremely important to identify new opportunities and develop the mindset of positivity.

Many managers and entrepreneurs have exploited new potentials, identifying new areas and emerging needs with pandemic, expanding their knowledge and always remaining outside the “comfort zone”. This makes home office, in many cases, a “successful case” for many companies, where they identify as unnecessary the end of work at home, after all, the scenario has become positive for them.

Challenges of the present and future

Many modifications to work models are expected to stay for a long time. Firstly the basic safety measures, especially in the countries most affected by the pandemic, with distance tables, rigid hygiene processes, as well as adequacy of size of environments. This all reflects on some difficulty for some companies to maintain work in the old way the changes.

Imagine a company with 30 office employees, dividing them into tables of only two members, with a minimum distance between them and between the tables, with extremely strict hygiene processes.

In addition, there are problems related to those who will remain at home office, such as safe remote access , which, by the way, have caught the attention of entrepreneurs in the wave of cyber attacks.

We even provide an Internet security test to identify which are the possible safety breaches present in the network of professionals and companies.

There are still concerns related to productivity , after all, how to control employees in their homes? These are concerns and processes that can strongly affect productivity and investment values ​​in companies.

To balance such changes, large companies such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Zee.dog and XP Investimentos have already stated that they will keep part of their employees in a permanent home office. The main reason is the identification of benefits and improvements in the work model introduced by the pandemic.

Home Office Guide for Small and Medium Businesses

Taking into consideration several factors related to the challenges and necessary adaptations of companies to adopt home office as an alternative to the impossibility of physical work demanded by the pandemic, we identify the need to build a complete material, which includes the necessary information and some extremely useful tools to facilitate the transition from conventional work to the remote.

In the home office guide for small and medium businesses , you will find the following guidelines:

• Reasons to adopt the home office
• Home Office Challenges
• Legal issues
• How to adjust my company?
• Tools and technologies that can help
  • Fast and without falls
  • Data safety and equipment health
  • VPN for companies
  • Video conference
  • Tasks and Processes
  • Avoid distractions on the Internet
• Home office equipment tips

You can access the guide page when you want, or download the ebook and send it to your colleagues and friends.