Everything bad has something good, and this pandemic is going to leave us positive things in the workplace. In fact, we are already seeing some positive changes in the labor market.

Remote work has caused a relaxation in the traditional rules of professional presentation and resulted in a virtual workplace that is not only more flexible, but also more humane.

Here 3 changes that will improve the labor market thanks to COVID:

1. Reinvent workplaces as spaces for real collaboration

Reinventing the workplace and the office. We probably won’t be going back to the office like we did before, so companies will also need to reimagine the workplace as a place where people meet, brainstorm, have social gatherings, build social identity

Workplace should become a place where people come to collaborate, share and exchange information, creatively solve problems, build a community and identity.

2. Encourage individual flexibility

The future of work will be one of co-designing the workplace together with individuals: people who have different individual needs, values, strengths and aspirations.

Don’t make assumptions about people’s home situation. People will have different ways of working and different schedules. Give autonomy and be flexible.

3. Challenge yourself as a leader

Good leadership has always been one of the most complex human problems as it is especially challenging to learn. And while leadership can work well from a distance, it takes a unique set of skills to be good at this style of leadership.

Now, we need to do it from a distance, virtually, in a very uncertain crisis and in a workplace that might completely change. It might be that the traditional leadership styles that have been successful in the past, no longer work.

So other aspects of leadership might now become more critical, while tactics of the past, such as dominance in a meeting, may become obsolete. Specifically, remote leaders should:

• Clearly state their values that will guide institutional actions;
• Understand and openly discuss the travails and hopes of their organizations;
• Communicate an ambitious vision of the direction that the unit will head toward;
• Demonstrate confidence that strategic goals can be achieved.

As we can see, after some difficult months; jobs and businesses are emerging and changing. So this could be a good time to hire more people. Want to know more more about how to do it?  Contact Us