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FACTS AND FIGURES 9
MAIN CHALLENGES & FRICTIONS IN HYBRID WORK
CREATING SUCCESSFUL DISTRIBUTED WORK ENVIRONMENTS
EMPLOYEES CHALLENGES
Challenges in managing private and working life
Adapting to remote teamwork with an unstable connection
Struggling with loneliness and staying motivated
The cost of secure personal devices
Learn to use different work tools
FRICTIONS
Poor
WORKFLOW
management Difficulties in developing
STRONG TIES & COLLABORATION
Challenges in building and engaging with COMPANY CULTURE
CYBERSECURITY
concerns become harder to enforce
Proliferation of TOOLS & PLATFORMS to work with
COMPANY CHALLENGES
Complex workforce coordination due to a weak remote working culture
Adapting to manage a hybrid workforce and its workflows
Maintaining culture and trust using technology
Issuing secure company devices and creating relevant policies
Creating a technological standard for everyone
activities we need to perform in them. Rather than adapting a space to allow us work anywhere, we adapt the space – home, work or anywhere in between – to our needs, to our personal bubble.
The result is a kind of toolbox, a briefcase turned into a backpack, which accompanies us everywhere, packed with the digital and analogue objects we need every day – not least a bottle of water – that we have learnt to carry with us at all times. The things we consider indispensable, and which communicate to others so much about who we are and what we believe in.
This phenomenon has become even more pronounced since the pandemic, as our homes and urban spaces have been redefined as places in which we work.
The idea that there is a meaningful distinction between work and life – the notion that underpins talk of work/life balance – has been eroded. Being able to tailor our environment to our specific needs at any moment renders such a contrast irrelevant.
Because such tools make it easy for everybody to meet a range of both private and professional needs, BYOD policies are now evolving in new directions. BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) and BYOE (Bring Your Own Encryption)5 refer to technology in general and the protection
Main Challenges & Frictions in Hybrid Work
Source: elaborated from the articles “What is a Distributed Workforce? Benefits, Challenges and Strategies”, by Brenda Do, UpWork, 2021, “The 2021 State of Remote Work”, Buffer, 2021, and “The Pros and Cons of Working Remotely”, by Bill George, Fortune, 2021.