Technological developments have an impact on every aspect of life, including work habits. Now, working from home or on a hybrid basis is one of the options that employees are starting to love.
The 2021 Global Workplace Report by NTT shows 79% of companies believe their employees would rather work from the office than from home. In fact, data shows that only 38% of employees prefer to work from the office, while 31% prefer to work from home, while another 31% want to be flexible between the two.
If the company does not respond to the changing needs of employees by providing options and varying degrees of flexibility in the way of working, it will feel the impact on employee productivity and satisfaction.
So, why are employees starting to choose to work from home or hybrid? Reported from various sources, the following reviews.
Better Work-Life Balance
Working remotely gives you the freedom to set your working hours. This means that you can choose when to start or end working hours, as long as you can still be productive and work according to company expectations.
This flexibility gives you time to fulfill personal needs or do daily household chores. For example, taking children to school, going to the gym, shopping for daily necessities, and so on. So, you can manage your work-life balance better if you work from home or hybrid.
Save cost
Working in a hybrid way will save a lot of costs, because you don't have to spend money on necessities such as transportation, gas, parking fees, food fees and so on. This of course will reduce expenses and increase your savings coffers.
Not only employees, companies can also reduce costs by implementing a work from home (WFH) or hybrid system. For example, building maintenance costs, electricity, wifi, AC workspace, and others.
Improve Work Performance and Productivity
The results of an independent survey show that 51% of employees experience better work performance and productivity when working remotely. One of the reasons is because they can work in a quieter and less distracted place like when working in an office.
Working remotely also provides lower stress levels, and gives employees the opportunity to pursue activities they enjoy or improve relationships with family and partners, thus supporting their performance at work.
In line with this, Cisco as a leading provider of collaboration and productivity solutions believes that the future of work is the ease of working anywhere. For Cisco, work is an activity, not a place.
Cisco helps transform the workplace to truly help employee productivity and increase profitability for businesses by providing technology solutions for Hybrid Work.
The following is one of Cisco's collaborative solutions to support hybrid working for employees on the go:
1. Cisco Webex
Cisco Webex is the one application for all your calling, meetings, messaging, and events needs in one platform in the cloud. Utilization can use the application or via the web. Cisco Webex can intelligently adapt to internet conditions while ensuring that experience levels and collaboration goals are achieved. The simplified webex interface makes it easy for all generations to interact with each other.
2. Webex Calling
Webex Calling is an enterprise-grade cloud telephony and collaboration solution offered through a flexible subscription model tailored to employee profiles.
With ease of system administration, security, and reliability you can trust, Cisco offers an always-on and up-to-date cloud telephony platform so you can communicate with your clients anywhere and anytime.
3. Professional Cisco Headset
Cisco released Headsets with this technology designed to increase productivity with features such as best-in-class noise isolation, vibrant audio, exceptional comfort and fully integrated Cisco Webex.
In contrast to other Headsets, Cisco Headsets can be co-managed with all other Webex devices, from a single platform in the Control Hub or Cisco Unified Communications Manager.
No additional software or service fees are required, because anyone can trace through the headsets inventory the type of headset used, software release, usage status and even the length of time the headsets have been used in the company.
NTT Ltd. as a technology services company together with Cisco helping companies implement an integrated Collaborative Intelligent Technology Solution deployment strategy. Combining global power and local autonomy provides the ability to continuously provide collaborative solutions that can adapt to the company's unique environment.
Read more about the 2021 Global Workplace Report | NTT and download the eBook on how to use effective collaboration solutions to support hybrid work. NTT Cisco Safety Hybrid Workplace E-Book. NTT Ltd. as a technology services company together with Cisco helping companies implement an integrated Collaborative Intelligent Technology Solution deployment strategy
