The New Working Normal?
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The Labour Day public holiday is nearly upon us. Whilst it’s generally an opportunity to get together with friends and family, it was originally a holiday to recognise the efforts of the Labour Union movement to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers (such as capping hours in a working day).
With the “normal” working day now a distant memory after the past two years of the COVID pandemic, what is the new normal?
Richard Vaughan, General Manager at Zipform Digital, said the line between how many hours people work is becoming more blurred with the ability to work online seeing many people – including himself – continuing their work away from the office. For the first time in many years, working hours have been increasing.
“With such a diverse workforce at Zipform Digital, we have had to embrace a hybrid working environment, which meant rapid adaptation to how our teams work best and feel safest and creating experiences within our culture that can reach everyone.
A few of the more popular hybrid options that have been popular with our teams include 9-day fortnights, WeWork office space for flexible locations around Australia and engaging staff with their virtual colleagues – including providing them working from home packs.”
Richard shared one final piece of advice,
“The key for any successful leader in this COVID world is flexibility and adaptability – the working normal or capped hours in a day celebrated by Labour Day no longer exist in 2022.”