There was a time when we dressed up, survived the morning rush hour, and checked in at the office. This was succeeded by a busy work day filled with meetings, interactions and some fun work moments. Seems like a far-away memory that’s slowly slipping into the recesses of your mind, right? It’s been over a year since COVID-19 has affected our workplace scenario, with the advent of remote working.
So, how has the workplace scenario changed post COVID-19?
1) Remote Work
COVID-19 has proved that working from home is indeed feasible for a large section of the society. Remote working has enabled numerous benefits for employees, such as being able to work from the comfort of their homes, and avoiding the crowded streets between work and home. However, work-from-home requires a higher degree of digital integration and additional training for employees.
Remote working has enabled companies to save up on the costs of maintaining and running an office. While some establishments find it easier to manage employees and record their work output, others find it tougher to detect and maintain a record of employee absences, which can detrimentally affect the company’s productivity.
2) Work-Life Balance
Is the 9 to 5 life a thing of the past? Can we ever leave our work in the office and dedicate time to our families? With almost all employees working from home, work-life balance has been affected significantly during this pandemic. Work has now entered the household and people find themselves working longer hours and higher incidences of work-related stresses. It is evident that the scales of work-life balance have tipped in favor of work.
3) Trust and Flexibility
Remote working has persuaded managers to place more trust on employees, giving employees greater flexibility. While remote working has led to more working hours for some, it has provided greater flexibility for many others. More flexibility ensures that employees can now work at their own pace, according to their schedule. Contrary to the extra stress faced by some, others have found it easier to interact with their loved ones. This respect, trust, and flexibility results in enhancing productivity and happier employees.
4) Geographical Barriers
Remote work made its majestic entrance post COVID-19, blurring borders and geographical barriers. The uncertainty of the situation and work-from-home scenario has led to companies hiring irrespective of worker’s location. This has led to better opportunities and applicants are now competing on a global level as companies can now hire the best talent available.
5) Lesser Emphasis on Aesthetics, More on Connectivity
When opening up an office, the aesthetics play an important role. It is necessary to make a good impression on clients and visitors, and their first impression hangs on how your office space has been designed. There is always a lookout for bright, welcoming spaces rather than dark, dingy surroundings. Post COVID-19, we can see office spaces turning into an obsolete idea.
Companies have now shifted their attention to establishing connectivity between all their workers as they work from home. You first impression is now based on how quickly and effectively you can schedule and meet with a client, and the ease of reaching out to the company. There is also a need for efficient employee management and communication.
6) Measuring Productivity
Pre COVID-19, employee productivity was measured by the hours they spend at their desk, their time of arrival at the workplace, and departure, all of which was carefully monitored. With the change in workplace scenario and the advent of home office, managing employee attendance has become difficult and measuring their productivity by the hours they put in has almost gone obsolete.
Post COVID-19, workers are now being evaluated for their actual work output rather than the number of hours they idle away at their desks. True, an attendance management system is inevitable to keep a check on tardiness, but there has certainly been a positive shift in productivity measures at the workplace.
7) Hygienic Practices
There are companies that have resumed office working practices post COVID-19. This calls for greater focus on hygiene to avoid the spread of infection across the workplace. Employees need to be careful more than ever, limit interaction, use face masks and hand sanitizers. The office space needs to be regularly disinfected, despite all of which there is still the risk of infection as employees are traveling and in contact with numerous people on their way to work.
8) Attendance Management
Remember rushing to your office to mark your attendance on time? Attendance is one of the factors that motivates workers to reach the office on time. Even with remote working, tardiness seems to be an unavoidable factor that needs appropriate measures, but capturing the attendance of employees working from home is not an easy task.
With a small fraction of offices now reopening, there is also a needed for safer, hygienic methods of marking attendance. This is bad news for the biometric systems that were so widely in use. The need of the hour is a touch-free system to mark attendance and curb the spread of infection at the workplace.
What if you could extend attendance management to employees who work from home or are deployed in field work? Sounds too good to be true, right? Post COVID-19, there has been a need for a novel system to manage employee attendance that is safe and efficient.
Rightly identifying the latest requirements, truMe has come up with a novel, contactless attendance management system that promotes hygienic practices. Best of all, it can be extended for employees working from home and on site.
Attendance Management System by truMe
truMe provides a cloud-based contactless attendance management system that personalizes the experience for employees. Workers can now mark their attendance by just clicking a button on their phones. They can also make use of the facial recognition method to mark their attendance. The system provides greater flexibility and lesser probability of employees not marking their attendance.
Administrators now have the power of geo-fencing, where they decide the location radius within which the employee must be to record their attendance. For marking attendance at the workplace, there is also an option to install a tablet that can scan the employees’ faces as they enter and exit and rightly mark their attendance.
truMe contactless AMS also supports seamless integration with other platforms such as any HRMS (Human Resource Management System) or even the Arogya Setu App. The absence of hardware eliminates associated glitches, malfunctions, downtime, and maintenance requirements, making it relevant to the digital era and current workplace scenario.
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