No more heating the chair: remote work turns into liquid office

In this way, a hybrid model As with the liquid office, it’s not just about reaching an agreement to work at home or the office a certain number of days a week, but it’s always the type of work that the dictating employee has to do. where develops. The employee gains consensus and autonomy while making company dynamics and resources more flexible to adapt to the digital world in the cloud.

“It’s the end of face to face. We can deny it, but new generations will not always want to work in person and on a fixed schedule,” sums up Gema García, co-founder of consulting firm The Move, in an interview with EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA. newspaper belonging to the same group. “Ideally, you can work from home if you need to concentrate or compromise with your work one day. personal life; you go to the office for someone else collaborative work or a brainstorming; There are even some companies that offer the opportunity to go. external offices of the collaborative work For a mixed model.

In this way, “warming the chair” and “let them see you in the office”, working late may become expressions of the past, but Gema admits we’re still far from that scenario in Spain. “There is bosses still likes Look into the eyes of your employees every dayand there are those who continue to see the office as a status to be blurred in this way,” explains the consultant.

They startFounded a few months before the coronavirus crisis hit, it is dedicated to rethinking the way companies allocate space in their offices. What it was redesigned for save costIt is now a work of reflection. flexibility this one has come to stay.

Rotating workstations, lockers for employees, laptops… But also more soundproof cubicles for making calls, larger meeting rooms for more enjoyment, or multi-purpose spaces for hosting and holding events.

In addition, everything so that employment fits the new demands of increasingly worried workers. compromise and for time management. In this sense, initiatives such as 15-minute cities designed to bring everything from business to entertainment to the citizen’s home are already launching projects to transform cities like Barcelona, ​​Paris or Tokyo.

In Spain, still affected by the restrictions of the pandemic, the latest data from the INE for 2021 shows: Half of workers who can work remotely have done soespecially in the Community of Madrid, where 34.5% of employed people telecommute and in Catalonia with 23.4%.

Also, according to a report by the employment portal ITIn the first four months of 2022, the number of job offers that include the telework option doubled than those posted in the same period of 2021. This figure was ten times higher than in 2020.

For example, in operators such as Telefónica, 81.5% of employees who can request remote work in any of its variants did this, while this rate was 96% in Vodafone. But other companies like Liberty Seguros have decided to go a step further and for over a year 99% of their employees have been working outside of their offices.

“The full teleworking day is quite a minority reality. The general trend in Spain at the moment is, hybrid modelhowever, to be successful, companies must have the commitment of their leaders and partners experts who define processes and implement necessary support structures”, Álvaro Álvarez, Secretary General ManpowerGroup.

According to a study by the Talent Solutions department, 91% of companies with remote work are considering or planning to transition to a hybrid employment model. In this way, according to Álvarez, squeezing the benefits of face-to-face work and at the same time the “management of distraction” that teleworking entails, feeling of loneliness and the difficulties of cooperation and communication between working groups”.

Nine out of ten employees expect flexibility

Telework rates in Spain now that the pandemic no longer stifles companies lose strength It is inevitable, though not as expected. The end of restrictions has only resulted in a 4% drop in the number of people working from home, even on occasion, and according to the latest report by Adecco, 2.74 million Spaniards maintained flexibility.

“Telecommunications already part of the day Almost the entire Spanish business fabric of course, except in sectors where face-to-face participation is practically non-transferable”, Pablo Gómez, Director of Corporate Services Adecco Group. “Sure success, Balance between face-to-face and remote model, and this takes into account the needs of employees, customers and the company itself”.

One factor is flexibility, which is already decisive, as more and more employees do this, as confirmed by both personnel management companies.main benefit” Possibility to include telecommunications in your workday. “This is one of the aspects most valued by workers when deciding on a new business project,” adds the Adecco representative.

In this sense, the pandemic changed everything. According to a recent ManpowerGroup study, a 89% of professionals expect their jobs to be partially remote after the coronavirus crisis.

A truth that even the richest man in the world cannot resist, elon muskwho have recently tried to force their employees to do so tesla to return to the office.

The bet, including the threat of expulsion, went so badly that he had to back down almost immediately because not only did he find it. reject your workersbut he realized he didn’t have one office space or resource for all of them.

A situation where other giants like view anyone Googlebut also creates controversy among small and medium-sized companies.

“We always say this isn’t coffee for everyone, but we try to ensure that offices have 40% workstations and 60% multi-purpose space. By switching to a flexible model, the same office can house a coffee shop. 20% or even 30% more employees“, says co-founder Movement.