Hybrid Working Models: The Challenges And Developments

Virtual team management did pose a few challenges in terms of communication, productivity, and accountability. However, with the right set of tools, like TeamChat, Video Conferencing, and Easy document sharing and editing, these remote-work scenarios can be tackled with

- Ashok Pandey

The advantages of working from home have received a lot of attention in recent years, but some drawbacks need to be discussed. Telecommuting has, after all, changed how many people think about work and how they do it, and any change of this kind will come with problems that need to be solved and obstacles that need to be overcome.

Covid-19 has transformed everything around us and accelerated our journey into an inevitable future, agnostic of distance and time. With remote work, the boundaries between work and life have blurred. Traditional working hours are no longer ‘normal.’ Work calls are extending late into the evenings often disrupting precious personal and family time.

However, in virtual environments, it is a huge challenge for the teams to effectively come together and also learn from each other. Also, the attention span can be limited when remote, and employers have tried to mandate video calls to mitigate the same – still, long discussions happen which can be effectively solved in a fraction of this time when in person. The bigger challenge is when half of the workforce is virtual. Effectively managing the same while not disadvantaging the teams that are remote is a huge challenge.

Now that there is a constant war for talent, companies have the chance to offer remote work to their employees and become leaders in their field.

But employers and HR leaders have a hard time finding a good balance between the pros and cons of working from home.

From the employees’ and the company’s point of view, these are some of the challenges –