Skip to content At a time when the world appears to be caught in a strange kind of hinterland between the intense COVID threat of 2020 and the ‘old normal’, you could understandably be indecisive about whether you should readopt your pre-pandemic work habits or continue working from home.
However, you don’t strictly need to choose between the two – as there’s a middle ground in the form of hybrid working. Here are some of the most compelling advantages of spending a portion of your work hours in the office and the rest at home.
You could boost your productivity
How well a particular work strategy ‘works’ can depend on the person. However, in research cited by theHRDIRECTOR, 31% of organisations believed that they had boosted their productivity since switching to hybrid working.
Meanwhile, 55% of organisations reported that their productivity had remained stable as a result of the change. In short, a huge majority had not seen their productivity take a hit as a result of hybrid working, making it very much a low-risk strategy.
It’s easier to achieve a good work-life balance
Just imagine, for example, how you could opt to stay in bed a little longer on each morning when you wouldn’t need to commute. Furthermore, when working from home, you will be able to start chatting to other members of the household literally as soon as ‘leaving time’ arrives.
You could even find your diet improving when you have your own kitchen’s food cupboards at close hand and don’t have to settle for, say, picking up a chocolate bar from a vending machine.