#remote working

Matthew Pinto-Chilcott, Owner of Consensus HR comments: “What are your views on this?  As previously commented, I find it works both ways and as long as your team have the correct tools to do the job such as IT, telephone access etc, the workforce should be more flexible.  This, however, needs to be managed correctly and trust put in your team to work productively and professionally or else, as this article from the BBC comments and as some companies expect, employees will have to return to work in the office five days a week!  Personally., I cannot say this is easy to achieve in a work environment where you have become accustomed to the team being in the office all the time during work hours but do believe it is the way forward in business sectors that can accommodate it.  Unfortunately, many business sectors will never be able to offer it as an option such as retail and hospitalities but as reports / news articles show, many workers prefer to stick to the ‘old’ way and return to the office and companies will need to reflect on what, if any effects it has on retention within the team..  Let’s wait to see what the overall consensus is once we are back to normal!  Whatever the new ‘normal’ is?