- A survey by Indeed, on people who had to
work from home due to the pandemic, showed that 73% miss socialising with their colleagues in person. - Companies are now forced to set out satellite offices as people need physical sense in some ways.
- “Employees are willing to pay up to $300 or more per month for access (to office space), so there's a demand for space, and to be around people, but not full time,” said
Dan Schawbel , managing partner at Workplace Intelligence.
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One thing that was clear from their conversation was that there is a lot that people are missing out on now, even when compared to the comfort and convenience they have at home.
A $4by Indeed, an employment website for job listings, on people who had to work from home due to the pandemic, showed that while 78% reported they have since adjusted, half of our respondents still miss their commute, 45% miss in-person meetings and 73% miss socialising with their colleagues in person.
Working from the office matters more to young graduates who want to work in an office around people. “This is because they want the same community that they had in college”, he added. It is a huge difference in both settings of work. In a corporate setting you can walk down the hallway and talk to your colleagues but while working remotely it's not possible.
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— Business Insider India🇮🇳 (@BiIndia) $4 ]]>The speakers pointed out that there is an emphasis on companies to have some physical spaces like satellite offices. A satellite office is a branch of a company that's physically separate from the organisation's main office. “So for instance, let's say you're in India and you get a job that was normally based in, you know California in the United States, that company, potentially would give you (allot you a workplace) a satellite office in India that you and your colleagues in the area can go and socialise,” added Dan.
To this, Nitin pointed out that companies are being forced into a point where they need to kind of set up satellite locations as people need physical sense in some ways. “You need to come into spaces to collaborate, to kind of go better suited to be speaking to a lot of that stuff happening,” said Nitin.
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— Business Insider India🇮🇳 (@BiIndia) $4 ]]>So the reality stands that there will be a mixed workplace ecosystem in days and years to come.
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