Will permanent Home Office be the New Normal?

It will come as no surprise that returning to a “normal” post-pandemic work routine will be very different to what was before the arrival of the virus. Remote work, or “home office” is being applied in a large part of companies and, as many studies indicate, it has brought positive results.

Adaptation of companies

Remote work processes are completely different from usual ones, so all companies must adapt and change their processes so that home office is viable and effective.

According to a study carried out by IPEA and IBGE , permanent remote work will be possible for 22.7% of occupations in Brazil. In other words: one in every five professions in Brazil can adopt a home office.

What do managers say?

A survey by ISAE Business School shows that 80% of managers who adopted working from home say they liked the new way of working. This means that perhaps the adoption, or permanence, of remote work stops – or has already stopped – from being a necessity for managers, becoming a choice, identifying the benefits and making the processes functional enough for the work to remain productive.

Opportunities

It is natural for human beings to focus more on problems and difficulties, however, in the current economic scenario it is extremely important to identify new opportunities and develop a mindset of positivity.

Many managers and entrepreneurs have explored new potential, identifying new areas and needs emerging with the pandemic, expanding their knowledge and always staying outside the “comfort zone”. This makes working from home, in many cases, a “success story” for many companies, where they identify ending work at home as unnecessary, after all, the scenario has become positive for them.

Challenges of the present and future

Many changes to working models are expected to be maintained for a long time. Firstly, basic safety measures, especially in countries most affected by the pandemic, with distanced tables, strict hygiene processes, in addition to adapting the size of environments. This all reflects a certain difficulty for some companies in maintaining the old way of working in line with changes.

Imagine a company with 30 employees in the office, dividing them into tables of just two members, with a minimum distance between them and between the tables, with extremely strict hygiene processes.

In addition, there are problems related to those who will continue to work from home, such as secure remote access , which, by the way, have caught the attention of businesspeople amid the wave of cyber attacks.

We even provide an internet security test to identify possible security breaches present on the networks of professionals and companies.

There are still concerns related to productivity , after all, how can you control employees in their homes? These are concerns and processes that can strongly affect productivity and investment values ​​in companies.

To balance such changes, large companies, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Zee.Dog and XP Investimentos, have already declared that they will keep part of their employees in a permanent home office. The main reason is to identify benefits and improvements in the work model introduced by the pandemic.

Home Office Guide for Small and Medium Businesses

Taking into account several factors related to the challenges and necessary adaptations of companies to adopt home office as an alternative to the impossibility of physical work demanded by the pandemic, we identified the need to create a complete material, which includes the necessary information and some extremely useful tools to facilitate the transition from conventional to remote work.

In the Home Office Guide for Small and Medium-sized Companies , you will find the following guidelines:

• Reasons to adopt Home Office
• Home Office Challenges
• Legal issues
• How to adapt my company?
• Tools and technologies that can help
  • Fast, drop-free internet
  • Data security and equipment health
  • VPN for businesses
  • Video conference
  • Tasks and processes
  • Avoid distractions on the internet
• Equipment tips for Home Office

You can access the guide page whenever you want, or download the eBook and send it to your colleagues and friends.