It is essential to engage with your employees, as it helps to build loyalty and increase retention. This is even more important in 2020, when it has become increasingly challenging and important to keep morale high.
If done right, working arrangements like remote working or telecommuting also encourage autonomy, flexibility and agility, all of which could benefit the company in the long run. Furthermore, employees are expecting flexible work arrangements to be the norm in the future after having a taste of how it has helped them achieve work-life balance.
However, many employers are still sceptical about such policies. “Do I trust my employees enough to let them work with little supervision? What if people start to grow apart and impact our ability to collaborate as an organisation?”