1 Working from home is becoming a working mode
It has been more than 2 years since the outbreak of the epidemic, and many people have been forced to experience working from home. Working from home has many advantages, such as saving a lot of commuting time, allowing people to better balance family, life and work, and may also be more conducive to creation. There are a lot of research data feedback, a considerable number of home workers believe that work efficiency has improved, and it is rumored that cutting-edge companies such as Facebook and Twitter have decided to permanently accept the work style of home office.
SOHO-Small office and Home office, which have been emerging in New York since the end of the 1980s, were initially mainly popular among freelancers.
With the development of information technology, working from home may become an indispensable way of working in the future. Through several rounds of home office practices that respond to epidemic prevention requirements, the government, enterprises and institutions may also find that some positions do not need to be on the job every day, and when the recruitment needs are released in the future, there may also be a clear explanation that a position can work from home.
2 Musk says "no" to work from home
In the past two days, Musk has issued an ultimatum to Tesla employees, sending two emails in a row, the first of which is "no longer accept remote work", indicating his attitude: "Anyone who wants to work remotely must enter the office to work at least 40 hours a week, otherwise leave Tesla."
That same night, Musk added another email to "make it super clear": "Everyone at Tesla has to spend at least 40 hours a week in the office. In addition, this office must be where your colleagues are located, not some remote fake office. If you do not show up, we will assume that you have resigned. ”
In the face of netizens' questions, Musk responded domineeringly: "They should go somewhere else to pretend to work." Some people think that Musk actually said many things that the bosses could not say and endured for more than two years. Although working from home has gradually become an important way of working, many bosses and managers may think that employees working remotely cannot be as efficient, innovative or collaborative as working in the office.
For example, Ai Media Consulting released the "2020 China Workplace New Year Home Office Behavior Investigation and Research Report" in the first quarter of 2020, more than 40% of the home office respondents have extended their average daily office hours, and more than 40% of the interviewed executives/responsible persons believe that home work does more harm than good, and most executives/leaders have concerns about employees' personal efficiency, mutual collaboration efficiency and company trade secrets.
3 How to make home work quality?
Home workers may have great doubts, why is it that the working hours have been extended, the work has not been delayed, and the company or superiors are not satisfied? With this question, I would like to give a little advice to comrades who work from home to break the erroneous perception that "there is no quality in home work".
We need to first talk about the hypothetical premise, which is to strive for efficiency and maximize efficiency under the restricted framework, that is, how to improve quality in the case of being forced to stay at home.
1. The unit fully researches, comprehensively adapts the strategy for working from home, and counsels employees.
Since the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the home office of all or some personnel may become the norm in the future, which is a major change in traditional working methods, and it also requires the unit to make corresponding changes that match it autonomously and proactively. Change and change are always on the road, today's traditional way of office is not since ancient times, it is necessary for the unit to study in depth, find the best way to match the strategic goals, business models, institutional processes and so on of the home office, take the initiative to adapt to changes, and turn crises into opportunities.
This work can not rely on individual employees to match, to complete, the need for the unit to seriously do strategic adaptation, and the formation of a set of home office guidance system, to solve: how to arrange home personnel and time, how to promote tasks, how to communicate, how to arrange the approval process, how to deal with the boundary between life and work, how to guide the psychology of long-term home closure... Institutionalization, standardization, informatization, in case of emergency, regular changes, and fully train and counsel employees.
To say more, since they are all at home, some units do not bother to supervise whether employees are always at work, before there are employees to regularly punch the camera or offline no more than how many minutes of news, in normal times it is difficult for you to control employees to touch the fish, how can it be done at home? In addition, staying at home is also forced, and the unit should have more understanding. At this time, it is necessary for the unit to change its thinking and turn to result-oriented rather than process over-control.
2. Personally plan office hours and office space to avoid confusion and anxiety.
On the basis of adequate tutoring by the unit, individuals also need to pay attention to the interface balance of working hours and space. In view of the fact that working from home is a mixture of work and life space and time, many people may not be able to adapt to this change at the beginning, often resulting in the dilemma of working hours busy with life and living time busy with work, psychologically thinking that working hours are longer, but the superior does not recognize the effect.
In order to reduce this kind of trouble, first of all, in terms of time, such as with the unit or team, the agreed fixed period of time must be busy with work online, strive to concentrate on time to finish the work, or at least distinguish between working hours and life time in stages; Secondly, in terms of space, plan out a place, a place separate from the main living area, dedicated to work, and find a comfortable chair. I don't recommend working in bed, sleeping is a very personal, beautiful thing, it is best not to disturb other things.
Even if you stay at home, you can work well and live well. The sense of ceremony is a good thing, most people are not the boss after all, or want to live a good life.
3. Make three chapters of the law with the people around you, and do a good job in psychological expectation management.
For ordinary people, working from home is a new thing for individuals or those around them. Family members may think that working from home is equivalent to a holiday, so living space and time begin to invade your working hours, and people around you may still have complaints that they are at home and do not help this and help that.
At this time, it is necessary to inform the people around you of the requirements of the unit on working from home, the needs of the task and the planning of the working hours, to obtain understanding, to avoid unnecessary contradictions caused by the inconsistency of the psychological expectations of all parties, and to avoid falling into the trap of hoping that the other party will understand.
Finally, I hope that the epidemic will end as soon as possible, so that whether it is life or work, it can be truly high quality.
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[This article was published by "Li Yang To See", August 5, 2022]