Are you ready for hybrid work in Taiwan? 

In Taiwan, 104 Bank shows that WFH has many benefits for Taiwanese employees and employers, and also shows that WFH is not the only option for Taiwanese. More data shows that hybrid work is the best solution for future work styles.  

A Cisco report in Taiwan also shows that 78% of respondents globally believe that hybrid and remote work has improved all aspects of their well-being, enabling employees to take care of their whole selves in their work roles and outside of work.

Moreover, 62% of employees believe that their ability to work anywhere affects whether they stay in their job or leave it. 

What is hybrid working? 

Hybrid work is an approach that combines work at home and work in the office and takes into account the needs of the individual. 

It provides sufficient flexibility in work, including customized flexible working hours, workplace, and workflow by employees themselves, and allows them to work in the public workspace in the office.    

As a result, employees are able to enjoy a personalized work schedule and combine it with a co-working style within the company to create an organized and efficient work model. 

What does Taiwan employee data show?

104 Data invited 2,755 Taiwanese employees and 2,637 Taiwanese employers to share their thoughts on new ways of working.

65% of employees and 29% of employers said that they prefer hybrid work with “3 days in + 2 days”. Employees only will accept full-time office work if their company is unable to WFH. 

Benefits of hybrid work 

Based on the Cisco report, 79% of respondents said that hybrid working has improved their overall well-being.  

Hybrid work also can improve people’s work performance. 59.8% and 53.8% of respondents say hybrid work enhances their quality of work and productivity.  

Furthermore, hybrid work has saved employees money. The report shows 80.7% saved money in the past 12 months, an average savings of U.S.$146 a week and U.S. $7592 a year.

At the same time, this means employers can reduce the travel allowances for the employees as they less to back to the office. 

What should you need for hybrid work in Taiwan? 

Before deciding if your company is suitable for hybrid work, you must have a clear understanding of what is required or what should prepare for hybrid work.  

Have you planned a full hybrid guideline and policy for hybrid work? 

According to a Cisco report, 69.4% of respondents say they want hybrid work arrangements.

Even the employers are supportive of the hybrid work arrangement, 80% say they are supportive and 30% say they are very supportive of this approach. 

The reason is if you establish some good working guidelines so that your employees can work with clear work objectives, then ensure their productivity.

In addition, if you establish some proper work policies, it would ensure your company that there is a clear vision. The result is to put your company on the right path to flexibility. 

Are you ready to introduce some technology that is compatible with remote work? 

According to Microsoft’s recommendations for the hybrid work program, the flexibility program should also include technology that supports team collaboration and creates a new digital employee experience that follows employees wherever they go. 

You need to provide your employees with a well-connected network, as well as collaborative work tools that support virtual meetings. In addition, it must need to provide seamless working facilities or equipment for remote workers, supporting their return to office work.

For example, if a remote worker is used to working alone, you can provide a quiet car to he/ she, which supports he/she working alone, and make he/ she easily adapt to working back in the office. 

Furthermore, you can provide your employees with virtual communication software that supports real-time conversations, such as Teams, so that they can easily follow up the remote work process when they go back to the office. 

Is your workplace an employee-centric design? 

An employee-centered workplace provides a friendly working environment that will help increase employee satisfaction and attract them to come back to work.

Having a workplace with an employee-centered design is an important transition moment for employees to return to the office. A good example is LEGO Campus. 

In addition, a hybrid workplace provides different equipment to support flexible work and an office management system that allows managers to easily manage all resources in the office. 

For example, Benz Taiwan has chosen to use a room booking system for its office. This system allows their staff to check the availability of meeting rooms at any time and provides a real-time reservation function.

The system makes Benz Taiwan eliminates the need to hire more room managers and gives the admins more time to focus on other tasks, making the office more efficient. 

Are you mentally ready for hybrid work? 

Referring to the Cisco report, only 16.1% of employees feel their employer is “very prepare” for a hybrid working future.

The reasons are they have a wrong mindset of hybrid work or do not consider implementing the mentioned above approaches. 

Your mindset is very important to the success of hybrid work. If you don’t fully believe in hybrid work, you would not know which is the right hybrid work practice for your business, making your workplace impossible to implement hybrid work successfully. 

Meanwhile, a lack of understanding of hybrid work can cause you to waste resources by buying the wrong equipment to support the hybrid work. In the end, your employees can’t work with real flexibility, so this makes them will quit their jobs and go to find real flexible work. 

Therefore, in order to retain your talent, you must have to abandon the idea of a traditional work style. If you’ve changed your mindset and are planning to use the options described above, so congratulations, you’re ready for the hybrid work generation! 

For more information, ONES Software now has a dedicated page to introduce a series of smart office and hybrid working measures to help you solve problems. You may wish to go to https://ones.software/hybrid-workspace/ for further reference.     

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website: https://ones.software/.