Prioritizing Your Employees in a Post-Pandemic Workplace
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have had to rapidly adapt to changes that affect their business for both employees and customers. As the pandemic gets closer to the end, the discussion has started about how businesses will go back to normal for some things while changing permanently for others.
One of these changes is how employees are prioritized, especially when they are on the front-line when interacting with customers. It’s important that employees are prioritized as they will go somewhere else if they are mistreated. Check out these ways you can prioritize your employees post-pandemic.
Working from Home
Depending on the industry, many employees were able to work-from-home in the past year. Some employees enjoyed it a lot as it let them not have to worry about getting ready, or having to pay a lot of money to get gas for work. However, some employees did not enjoy working-from-home as they didn’t get the socialization you get if you were working in-person.
For this reason, businesses must look for ways that employees can choose whether they want to work-from-home or work in-person. You should ask your employees if they would like to decide on what they want to do full-time, or allow your employees to pick certain parts of the week they work in-person or not. Allowing your employees to choose if they want to work-from-home or not is just one way you can prioritize your employees after the pandemic.
Communication
After employees switched to working from home, they might have felt like communication hasn’t been as good as before. The reason for that is because employees can much more easily talk to their managers when they are just able to go up to them in-person in a workplace. However, businesses have things they can do to combat this issue.
First, businesses can set up regular 1-on-1 meetings with employees and managers online. This makes it so that both parties can communicate any issues without worrying about going through emails or missing instant messages. It’s also a good idea for businesses to implement opening meetings in which employees can talk about any issues they might be having with leadership of a business. Make sure that you open up communication in your business if you’re looking to prioritize your employees.
Originally published at https://daviddevries.org.