The nature of work is changing and that s prompting people to think about how to redefine not only their work roles, but the nature of their relationships with co-workers and supervisors, says Blaine Landis, assistant professor at UCL s School of Management.
To address that, managers need to reconsider their psychological contract with employees, ensuring it evolves to keep pace with the way we work. When an employee begins a new role, they ll be given a written contract with pay and benefits, job expectations, and other key aspects such as hours and conduct. However, there will also be unwritten but understood rules around individual expectations, behaviour, engagement and more.
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“For a man’s house is his castle,
et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the Latin clause adding that home is also the safest refuge.
Covid-19 has turned millions of homes into workplaces, but many remote workers feel uneasy letting their employers across the castle drawbridge. Research carried out by YouGov in September 2020 of 1,816 working Britons suggested that 66% of workers would feel uncomfortable if their employers monitored their keystrokes remotely, rising to 74% for tracking of wearable devices and 80% for camera monitoring.