Is Home Working the New Normal?

Change was always coming for people to be working from home and not from company offices, but it looks like the Covid-19 events have forced this change to be pushed my faster. While some companies are struggling to get working practices in place, some are working with this very well and finding that this might be the new normal. What could normal look like after the pandemic has passed?

Trust.

Some employers seem to be avert from their employees working from home and I think some of it is due to trust. When your boss can see you, then they can see you doing work, which is what they want you to be doing on their time. However, this puts a piece of distrust in the middle that doesn’t make it a fun place to work, but a duty you have to do. Giving your employee’s trust to get the job done at home or in the office means they will feel respected and more inclined to get the job done. From the employer view you still want to know that the work is getting done, which is to be expected, but this can be done still by putting in Key Performance Indicators(KPIs). As a developer my KPIs are measure by how many backlog tickets I get complete to the expected standard. If these drop then my boss knows I might not be pulling my weight and need to review why I am not performing. This can all be done remotely without having to have a Big Brother camera on my back

I talk about more reasons here on the original story: PR Code – working from home https://prcode.co.uk/2020/09/07/is-home-working-the-new-normal/