Research suggests that by the end of 2020, 60% of all workers will spend more time out of the office than in it. While there are so many benefits to implementing agile working, challenges continue to impact businesses trying to adopt it.
If you want to create a successful agile working environment we thought we’d offer a couple of our top tips to start you on your way.
People management, working practices and company culture will have to evolve for employees and the company as a whole to be able to fully reap the rewards of agile working. Agile working focuses on achievements and results, that means there needs to be trust between employees and managers that the job will get done.
Agile working often heralded as a great way of attracting millennials to your company. A survey in 2017 showed that they believe agile working increases productivity and staff engagement, and enhances well-being, health and happiness. But millennials aren’t the only demographic making up your workforce. Agile working practices need to work for everyone in your company. For it to work for everyone you will need to combine strong management with an open and collaborative culture where every single employee is encouraged and provided with the necessary training.
Access to the latest and best technology to drive collaboration, agile working means your colleagues need the latest and best tech for the job to allow them to work anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
Finally by implementing agile working in your company, you are showing your employees that you trust them and value them. And that is highly motivating.
We wish you luck.
