A change of configuration. This is how a computer scientist would define return to work. After two years of smart working, there will be no return to the previous working life overnight. Indeed, after the latest government measure which surprisingly extended agile work for many workers only from 1 July, the return to “normality” can be said to be complete.
For those who work in the office or in the advanced tertiary sector, however, something has changed and perhaps definitively. Our mindset has changed, our way of thinking about work and managing our time, some of us have irreversibly become hybrid workers inside. And they will never go back.
As Microsoft wrote in the new edition of the Work Trend Index, the scale of values has changed: 54% of Italians are now more likely to prioritize health and well-being and 37% are willing to consider a new job in the next year. In this scenario, 49% of executives believe the main challenge of the hybrid work era will be the ability to hire employees. We are also facing a “Great Reshuffle” in Italy, albeit less than abroad, with 37% of workers declaring that they will probably consider a new job in the next year.
The Redmond giant says this in an interested way because it focuses heavily on the hybrid worker business. The weekly average of time spent in meetings on Teams which is its video conferencing software globally has increased by 252% since March 2020. Furthermore, Microsoft like many others are fully believing in the metaverse and therefore in the possibility of working at distance in a three-dimensional digital universe shaped like a video game. Somehow and in some form it will happen it is certainly true that for the hybrid worker of the present it will be a challenge in the near future that will involve a new configuration change.
While waiting to meet everyone in a virtual company, inside a virtual office with our equally virtual avatars, here are five objects that every hybrid worker could want to ensure that their work is as fluid and productive as possible. We would like to point out immediately that something has changed compared to the first year of the pandemic.