Tag: employee confidence
Flexibility and technology change how people work in Africa
A new report, Future of Work Life – Africa Edition, examines how employees and employers in Africa navigate the current work environment and their views on the future of work shaped by the pandemic, digitalization, and the fluctuating labour market.
Returning to workplaces not just about ‘getting bums on seats’
As governments urge employers to get their people back in the workplace and so maximise office space and boost ‘post-pandemic’ service/retail economies, the focus should not just be on ‘getting bums on seats’. We have called for managers to meet the challenges of a new world of work with flexibility and creativity.
How comfortable are you to speak up at work?
Do you feel that you have lost your voice in the workplace? Perhaps you identify to the following phrases: 'No one takes me seriously', 'My ideas are always put on the back burner', 'Every time there is a promotion, I am overlooked!'. We hear or experience these phrases from time to time, usually after a disappointment, frustration or something that did not go our (planned) way.
Consider remote working as permanent
COVID-19 continues to re-define the way we live and work. Over the past few months, organisations have had to re-imagine the way they work and embrace a fundamentally different approach to operating in this ‘new normal’. Remote working at the current scale became a necessity, and for the most part, it has worked.
