Home office has established itself in business
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As the latest study of the National Debt Register "KoronaBilans SME" shows, the second wave of the pandemic forced changes in the approach of entrepreneurs to remote work. Compared to the previous edition, the percentage of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises whose employees are able to partially or fully perform their duties in the home office mode has increased. Currently, it is over 52 percent of entrepreneurs. In addition, almost 77 percent of them to a greater or lesser extent implemented this model of work. Two months earlier, this percentage was less than 42 percent.
Although, as in the previous edition of the survey, only less than 5 percent of companies declared that their employees can do their work entirely from home, more than 52 percent of companies can use the hybrid model by sending part of their staff to the home office. In the previous edition of the survey, it was 47 percent. The hybrid model is usually possible in the retail and service industries.
Construction and manufacturing companies have the biggest problem with working in home office mode. A significant change, however, is that entrepreneurs have started to use remote work opportunities to a greater extent than before. Two months ago, over 58 percent of companies that could send at least some of the team to work from home kept their entire staff in the office. Currently, it is only 23.4 percent. Others implemented a new model of work.
There are many ideas on how to organize work during a pandemic. The most popular of them is one in which three-fourths of the staff work in the company and one-fourth work remotely (32 percent). Every fifth company (20.9 percent) has adopted the principle that half of the team works in the home office mode. This solution is most often used by micro-entrepreneurs and commercial companies. Less than 13 percent of entrepreneurs opted for a model that assumes working from home for three-quarters of the staff. However, the complete transition to remote work remains a challenge for entrepreneurs.
