The confinement derived from the Covid-19 pandemic changed work habits: Most office jobs had to migrate to the home office, where employees carry out the same activities from home.

Two years after starting with this modality and given the drop in SARS-CoV-2 infections, performance, optimism and performance when working under this modality have dropped considerably.

In contrast, shopping, transportation and food have increased their price exponentially throughout this time and this has caused a disparity of opinions on the part of this sector of employees. Is going back to the office as good as it seems?

Indeed, the home office that two years ago was the salvation of companies, today seems to have its days numbered, which raises a deep reflection and, above all, the need to establish strategies to face the change that is coming.

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There were two factors that determined the success of working from home at the beginning of the health emergency, according to Estrella Vázquez, general director of Factor RH, a human capital solutions company.

We had all entered a very high stress level and what we saw around us activated our survival instinct, our fear of death. Second, many of us started working overtime to show that we were productive, since we didn't want to lose our jobs, Vázquez said.

By 2022, circumstances have changed, but for more than two years, remote work, productivity and the home office continue to pose several challenges to both employees and employers, starting with learning to differentiate that these three terms are not what they are. same.

Stopping commuting two or more hours to the office, but closing the computer at 10 or 12 at night to finish the day's tasks was mistaken for productivity. However, more time in front of a screen does not guarantee efficiency.

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Producing more at the same time (or in less) should be the true focus of organizations, that is, you must be available at the agreed time in which you must meet certain goals, explains the executive.

Flexibility at work allows people to organize their work according to their particular life situation, which, in turn, gives them greater certainty, peace of mind and organizational capacity, so organizations need to focus on having strategies that provide all previous.

According to the specialist, among the key factors to achieve this is the change in the style of leadership according to the environment and work modality and the renewal of work culture and policies.

Two other factors would be the migration of the home office or the offices towards flexibility according to the tasks that each person in the work team develops and rethinking the evaluation of objectives and performance of the collaborators' competencies.

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