Tag: hybrid working

Ever since the shift from stone to metal tools, the world has steadily been moving towards an increasingly digital age. However, the rate at which technological developments take place today is expanding exponentially and over the last two years digital adoption and transformation has been accelerated at a rapid pace.

Businesses and consumers alike have had to weather several shocks over the past two years. In this article, I advise how businesses can make 2022 a year for rebuilding and taking advantage of new opportunities. During 2020, 42% of small businesses closed during lockdown, according to financier FinFind.

There have been a lot of useful opinions doing the rounds as the global working- world tackles the ‘back to the office’ conundrum. As a leader of a very open, convivial team, I most definitely thought that phasing our squad back to the office would be a seamless, stress-free exercise.

Media publications around the world are buzzing with anecdotal evidence of what has been called The Great Resignation – the COVID-19 lockdown-driven reassessment by individuals of the meaning of work in their lives. 2022 is shaping up to be a year of reckoning where employees and organisations both determine what is important for them and how they can continue to work together.

With digitisation reshaping the retail landscape, the future of the industry is unfolding before our very eyes. Since the pandemic began and lockdowns ensued, retailers have been forced to rethink the way they do business and, in particular, the way they serve their customers. 

Workplaces across the globe are facing a mental health crisis of unprecedented scope, as the effects of almost two years of anxiety, uncertainty and fear will transition into another period of flux as we enter 2022, a leadership expert says.

The word of the year in 1999 was 'Y2K'.  In 2007 it was 'subprime'. And then in 2016 it was 'Brexit'. 2017 saw the emergence of 'Fake news', and in 2019 it was 'Climate emergency'.

The pandemic forced everyone to spend more time online than they did before. This was out of necessity because of remote working and the need to buy services and products online. A global collective of highly sophisticated networks of criminals are aware of this larger, captive online audience, and they have innovated and stepped up both the frequency and the complexity of their attacks.

We are taking the hybrid bull by the horns and stepping up to help other organisations formalise their hybrid working models. Is hybrid working the way forward, even beyond the pandemic? We share our take on the working approach that is fast becoming the norm and a possible differentiator for employers.

Articles, webinars, and opinion pieces about how office workers will never return to work full time are all the rage right now. According to all the pieces I see and read, people love working from home and will elect to carry on doing so full-time or only return to the office a couple of days a week - the ‘hybrid’ model that so many are talking about. While I am sure this is true for some, and indeed for the people writing these columns, I think many more are eager and even anxious to get back to the office.