Polish companies want to abandon the remote working mode
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According to the “Talent Shortage” report by ManpowerGroup, almost every fourth employer in Poland is afraid that performing tasks outside the office adversely affects the well-being of employees. One in five is concerned about the quality of collaboration in remote teams. Concerns also relate to a decline in productivity (18 percent) and innovation (2 percent) and organizational culture (2 percent). Concerns about working offsite are not reported by 22 percent of entrepreneurs.
As Manpower’s permanent recruitment director Katarzyna Pączkowska commented, although the pandemic sparked a revolution in employers’ approach to remote working, more and more organizations are now returning to the traditional model of doing work from the company’s headquarters.
Employers predict that in the next 6-12 months, 88% of their employees will return to work permanently at the company headquarters. The proposal to work in a hybrid model will receive only 9 percent of staff, of which only 5 percent will have the opportunity to perform duties outside the organization for most of the week. In the case of 1 percent of employees, companies provide fully remote work. 2 percent of employers did not have specific plans.
Entrepreneurs point out that due to the nature of the tasks performed many functions cannot be performed outside the workplace. Nearly 8 out of 10 employers in Poland say that daily presence in the company requires most (76 - 100 percent) of the positions in their organization. 13 percent state that this is necessary for more than half of the jobs (51 - 75 percent). Only 1 percent state that there are no functions in the organization that obligate employees to come to the company’s headquarters every day.
To make jobs that require people to show up at the workplace every day more flexible, 39 percent of employers intend to introduce flexible start and end times. 33 percent of companies declare a combination of remote work and performing tasks at the company’s headquarters, 15 percent. - introducing flexible working hours, 12% choosing the place of work, and 5% sharing the position between several people. 42 percent of employers do not see the possibility of flexible work at all.
