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Covid-19 has accelerated the need for a Work-From-Home model that was in organizations’ largest interest of not just ensuring employees log in from home and stay safe from contracting the virus, but also fulfill the larger objective of ensuring their business runs smoothly. Of course, the impact of Work-From-Home has been significant with organizations experiencing the positive as well as the negative sides of a virtual workplace. According to a study conducted by Global Workplace Analytics, 25-30% of the workplace will be working from home multiple days a week by the end of 2021. Further, the study indicated that teleworkers are up to 40% more productive. Of course, there are contradictory views on Work-From-Home as well. The negative impact of Work-From-Home such as household distractions, slow internet connections, and work timings getting extended beyond usual hours has been frustrating for workers and impacting the performance of employees. Such distractions can be a dampener ...

The Work-From-Home (WFH) model foisted upon employees across the globe has brought one question to the fore – what will be the impact of Work-From-Home on innovation and collaboration? Clearly, the impact of Work-From-Home on innovation and collaboration has been a topic of intense discussion across organizations. Let’s try and understand why the impact of Work-From-Home on innovation and collaboration matters so much to organizations? But before we delve deep, let us first focus on the positives one can count through the WFH working model.Work From-Home helps employees save commuting time allowing them to ramp up work productivity as well as improve their work-life balance. Clearly, logging in from home has several advantages. However, Work-From-Home has its demerits as well – household distractions, slow internet connections, and work timings getting extended beyond usual hours can be frustrating and take a toll on employees.But the biggest talking point is what will be the impac...

The widespread global disruption caused by Covid-19 has triggered a new normal that was unthinkable at the start of 2020. The massive devastation unleashed by the pandemic has impacted every aspect of human life and forced organizations to fast-forward the Work-From-Home (WFH) model and address two key challenges – firstly ensuring their employees’ health is protected and secondly, their businesses do not suffer. So how has been the  impact of Work-From-Home ? Of course, the WFH model brought to the fore several positives. It saved valuable commuting time for employees – the time employees can now devote either scaling up their work productivity or improving their work-life balance. This working model also enabled employees to save commuting costs as well. All these may sound like Work-From-Home is the best thing to have happened from both the employees’ and employers’ perspectives. Logging in from home has several advantages but one cannot overlook the challenges associated w...