On a Monday morning, no one who works in a private firm – which in Brazil accounts for 1/3 of the active population, since another 1/3 of the force is informal and another 1/3 is civil servants – wants to discuss the real question: will we go back to face-to-face or not? The answer is yes. But the answer is also no. It will depend on your area of expertise and, especially, on the size and responsibility of the company in which you work. There is no standard answer, this is the only true answer. There is a company that has signed an agreement with a laboratory so that any employee, carrying a badge, performs a Covid test without the need for scheduling or payment. There are others in which if the colleague caught the disease, be damned. Each one who manages to do (and pay for) their tests. So far nothing new on the front. Simply the world being the world, especially in the tropics.
But those who deal more seriously with the future theme of work think about a post-pandemic yes. And in this field there is a lot of speculation, some data and little certainty. One of them is that most employers want their teams back to the physical and face-to-face work, although in public no one has the courage to make this explicit. A bit like the days when malls didn’t charge for parking and one expected the other to be the first. Then everyone started charging. In any case, there are areas in which the distance world has become the rule: technology. In this field, the (global) scarcity of vacancies gave its professionals a greater bargaining power than other categories. “I have an employee who decided to take his wife and child and take a trip along the Brazilian coast, living a few weeks in each place, and only coming back when his son, who is 4 years old, is old enough to enter elementary school,” he told me. the executive who commands an area with 50 professionals in one of the giants in the sector, a provider of solutions for all the major cloud players.
What do we workers want? Well, first you have to divide who can what. If you are informal, work for Uber, have an iFood backpack, work in healthcare, are a waiter or drive a bus, there is not much choice. Home office is as close to you as world peace. In so-called liberal professions, the field is hybrid. Distance meetings have become the norm, and they won’t die. But you won’t always be able to stay away. Treating cavities, for example, is still not remotely effective. On the other hand, teaching is a minefield. Public school teachers think A, private teachers think Z. Elementary school teachers think A, higher education teachers think Z. , I know the animal).
All that said, here’s a first tip, what I call the no-return trend for those who can work face-to-face and remotely, the hybridity – even if, in some months, it’s 90% at the firm and the next month it’s 65% at home. The word-mantra will be asynchronous. In more and more careers and areas of activity, we will live with colleagues of different nationalities, languages and time zones. Global teams are asynchronous in nature. What professional today is trained for this scenario? Answer: few. And then HRs tend to make mistakes, because they schedule their hiring instead of profiling their contractors. Such soft skills will be worth more and more. A lot more.
21st Century companies will be companies with a global culture and political positioning (but I will deal with this topic at another time). This will imply asynchronous action. In short, it means a team prepared for the work that will happen to different people in their own time. Downside: People with a rigid profile will suffer more. The new certainty is the routine of working in uncertainty. Which will not mean confusion or absence of goals and metrics. The opposite. They will be more and more forceful. But the profile of such a collaborator will be increasingly malleable and adaptable. The new world of work will change the culture of all companies. Or of all those who want to reach the 21st century.
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