Staff need greater than bananas to return to workplace. Companies provide them enjoyable

13. Mar 2023 at 12:32  I 

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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Slovakia’s shared service and enterprise service sector tailored shortly, rolling out workfromhome programmes to maintain operations working.

However like so many different companies around the globe, corporations within the sector right here at the moment are transferring to get their workers again into places of work.

Whereas the productiveness and effectivity of shared service and enterprise service centres didn’t lower throughout lockdowns, creativity, pace of drawback decision, thought sharing and relationships did endure, bosses within the sector have stated. Varied laws on office-based working was launched in response to the pandemic, and rules nonetheless in place immediately imply that employers can’t drive workers to return to the workplace until they will present it’s vital.

Executives are using varied methods to lure individuals again, together with upgrading places of work, providing free fruit and low to workers, organising yoga and aikido courses, and in some circumstances even having a therapeutic massage therapist readily available to assist workers unwind if they should, amongst others.

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However as Lucia Gogová, Slovakia HR Operations chief & Strategic HR companion at IBM in Slovakia, factors out, it’s unlikely the provide of free snacks will get individuals again into workplaces. “A banana gained’t encourage individuals to go to an workplace,” she tells The Slovak Spectator, “they want a full bundle of advantages.” “They’ll meet with individuals, work together after which go and get that banana,” she says.

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Flexibility earlier than Covid

Even earlier than the pandemic, versatile working regimes had been effectively established within the shared companies and enterprise service sector. Many corporations allowed workers to earn a living from home or from one other various location inside the nation, often for at some point per week or a couple of days a month.