Employers have been playing tug of war with employees who are keen to retain their pandemic privileges. Will they be keeping them in 2023?
When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Australia in the early days of 2020, employees and employers scrambled to implement work-from- home policies.
However, 2023 looks set to deliver a shift, as people make new year’s resolutions to quit the job they hate or to find a role that offers flexibility and perks. As a result, people who have quit their jobs are looking for more from their place of work in 2023. In November 2022, the most searched term on SEEK was “working from home”, an indication that people are searching for jobs that are willing to keep pandemic policies, such as flexible working, in the new year.
Additionally, Imber says that companies need to be more receptive to the needs of workers. For many people, that means keeping the option open for them to work from home.When the pandemic hit many employers were worried that working from home would lower productivity, but the reality was that it had the reverse effect.
It’s something that international accounting company Grant Thornton is also trialling, with a twist. From March 2023, the company is launching a six-month trial of a nine-day fortnight with no cut to pay to help refresh employees after the pandemic, as well as attracting and retaining talent. People are experimenting with the idea of work and the workplace says Dr Augustin Chevez from the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University of Technology, and it’s unlikely that this will come to an end in 2023.
One of the ways the workplace is changing is through the rise of co-working desks and offices, as flex-space companies like WeWork, The Commons and WOTSO continue to pop up in cities, suburbs and regions.Businesses are using co-working to provide flexibility and bring people back to the office says WOTSO joint managing director Jessie Glew.
“Co-working spaces have become a lot more important because everyone wants to feel connected to other humans and everyone wants to feel part of a community, particularly if you are working from home the majority of the time.”It has also been a place for companies to turn to when they needed to reduce office sizes during the pandemic said Glew, as offices sat empty for months on end with employees working from home.
“In fact, the way we have embraced working remotely means we don’t even need desks any more, just a place in a breakout room or common area to make calls and work on a laptop. What employees are saying is: ‘Give me what I need to get my job done and trust me.’”
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