ADVERTISE
HR NEWS
ABOUT
CONTACT
STRATEGY
SEARCH
TRENDS
RESOURCES
SUCCESS STORIES
HRM MAGAZINE
POST-PANDEMIC, WORKFORCE REALIGNMENT IS EXPECTED As the vaccinated workforce considers joining work in offices, certain challenges need to be addressed. Foremost among them are: A safe and healthy environment. Work-life balance. Flexibility. Insuring against a future livelihood shock similar to the one posed by the pandemic. The workforce fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, in other words, may have only just begun in the post-pandemic scenario. The U.S. gross domestic product figures are nearer to pre-pandemic ones, but the job rebound is slightly slower. Payroll processor ADP surveyed more than 32,000 workers globally and found that most employees appreciated the flexibility of working from home and they wanted it to continue. Companies and employees have both reported improved productivity. Post Pandemic career reshuffles are expected But this improved productivity is not a result of better and focused utilization of time, but the added work hours that the workforce has put in. A survey by Eagle Hill Consulting says workers considering quitting their jobs are simply burned out. NordVPN Teams, a remote software provider, says workers in the U.S. increased their average workday by three hours — that’s a 40% increase and the largest jump worldwide. The ADP survey found that the unpaid hours of workers across the globe went up by about 25%, from 7.2 to 9.3 per week. In the United States, it more than doubled from 4.1 to 9. People, and women in particular, “may be returning to a corporate landscape that expects more hours worked with less compensation,” said Nela Richardson, ADP’s chief economist. “That’s a post-COVID burden, which could potentially frustrate hopes to reemploy the roughly 2 million U.S. women still absent from the labor force compared with February 2020.”
ACCOUNT