Many IT employees have been working from home for nearly a year now. And for some, fully or partially remote work will become the new normal. More than half (57 percent) of employees work from home now, according to a new survey of employers by Willis Towers Watson, and around two in five employees will still be working remotely at the end of 2021.
While this may be a welcome proposition for some tech professionals, IT leaders and managers may need to optimize the WFH proposition – for the betterment of the larger organizations and their team members.
“The biggest mistake that we saw in the beginning of the pandemic, that some leaders and managers continue to make, is to adopt a ‘copy and paste’ approach to managing their teams,” says Elizabeth Freedman, executive advisor and consultant at executive coaching and assessment firm Bates Communications (recently acquired by global strategy consultancy BTS). “They try to take what they did in the live world and apply it