In a recent blog, ‘Our New Reality: Predictions after Covid-19‘, KPMG made some predictions about how work will change going forward. They predict that remote working will increase, the 9-5 workday model will be challenged and leaders and managers will need to adapt to this change.

Fixed or Flexible location

Work is a thing you do, not a place you go. Leaders will now need to develop innovative ways to work with the personal circumstances of their team.

Fixed or flexible time

The 9 – 5 workday doesn’t work for everyone. Many people I have spoken to are enjoying starting work earlier as they save time commuting in the morning. Others are enjoying flexibility around child care drop offs. Remote working can make this easier.

More or Less interruptions

It’s easier to manage interruptions away from a centralised office and get more focused productive work done – no colleagues dropping in at your desk!

Input v Output

Work will now need to be measured by outcomes and work produced rather than input. This will take trust and maturity from everyone.

Manager-driven v self-driven

It takes a higher level of self-motivation to work from home or remotely. Your team will need to be better at managing time than ever before.

Commute v no commute

The average commute time in Australia is 3 hours and 37 minute a week (half a work day). The commute from the bedroom to the home office is 2 minutes on average (informal research). That’s time that can be spent with family, hobbies or exercise.

Structure v adaptable

Our workforce is going through a revolution. We will need to adapt quickly but with new technologies, improving home set ups and innovative leadership we can do it.

Speaking of being adaptable…

We’ve had to reimagine the way we deliver training and meet the needs of our clients as the game has changed for us. So, we now deliver all our training online via web training and we usually have a maximum of 14 people in a full day training session and 12 people in a half day face to face. For the remainder of 2020, we will offer 2 full day or 2 half day sessions with maximum 7 for full day and 6 for half day, for the price of a one day session! This means you can still train the same amount of people for the same price but it’s staggered over 2 session to allow for smaller class sizes. Contact us at info@productivityspecialists.com.au to discuss.

Fiona Newton
Training Director
Productive Events & Training