Work from Home in 2021- Why companies are still reluctant?

 

Work from Home in 2021- Why companies are still reluctant?

Numerous organizations have implemented Work from home in their work culture and have gained benefits like retention of remote employees and reduced overhead costs. On the other hand, employees too are getting benefitted by work from home due to its advantages like flexibility, better work life balance and less time in commuting. Many researches have been done and has identified wide range of benefits on how work from home is better than working at a designated office place. Also, Covid-19, has given an opportunity to the employer to adapt the new culture because of various advantages of work from home such as:

1)       Safety of employees from getting infected

2)       social distancing becomes more easy

3)       comfortable working environment

Though, there are benefits still preference is given to work from office. One of the major reason is not all the work can be completed by just sitting at home. This is one of the major drawback / disadvantage of work from home. The employees working in sectors like production, retail, healthcare staff, transport and other services where they have to deal with the customers, products or machinerycannot WFH. Lack of working facilities at home like internet, no working machines, better space to work, unwanted distractions like friends and family etc. impact the efficiency of an employee.

Therefore, working in office could be a right choice. You are more productive as well you can give more concentration on work without any overhead cost. It is a good choice during special circumstances like bad weather conditions or cases like pandemic. It makes convenient to employees to work even in such circumstances.

Other factors why your organizations are not ready for WFH:

1. Ethics; is something which depends on one person to person. There are employees who need others around so that they can help them in generating ideas, or they need some motivation when they see other working hard. Some like be on professional attire and some would prefer doing work on sweatpants at home.

2. The nature of the work if it requires more concentration

3. U work better when U are being monitored

Confidence and trust is the major issue. Many employers do not It’s is believed that when you are monitored, you work much better. During office hours your boss can catch you up if you are on a coffee break.

Other technical reasons:

1) Cyber security Risk: There are several technological risks. Of them risk of cyber security is the major one. No company/organization would like to take the risk if it can be avoided by providing employees office equipment at office place. Majority of companies in India give top priority to Cyber security.

2)  Data privacy and malware are the other risks which the company would like to avoid. Malware could effected more home based networks than office based networks. Also when the employee works from home there is a big question mark for the employers on data privacy.