Employees want flexibility to work from either office or home

A manager speaking to his team virtually to review feedback on working from home. [Getty Images]

As organisations scrambled to set up a remote workforce in the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, few had formal documents or policies in place for such an unexpected and overnight reality. Employees had little experience working from home for extended periods, and employers often even less of a track record in managing remote employees. The result? Hastily drawn up policies to clarify the ambiguity of this radical transformation.

Fast forward three years and the world has largely adapted to new ways of working but the fact now is that remote work policies crafted just a couple of years ago are likely obsolete for most companies.