Productivity can be measured irrespective of location: EY

Given the selection, 69% worker respondents in India would select flexibility in once they work. By comparability, 76% need flexibility in the place they work.

In India, 85% respondents consider their productiveness might be precisely measured regardless of location, in response to the EY 2021 Work Reimagined Worker Survey. The survey, one of many largest world surveys of its sort, canvassed the views of greater than 16,000 staff throughout 16 international locations and a number of industries and job roles. It consists of 496 staff from India and explores worker attitudes and experiences to work all through the pandemic and into the “subsequent regular”.

Flexibility: Given the selection, 69% worker respondents in India would select flexibility in once they work. By comparability, 76% need flexibility in the place they work. However, globally, 54% staff need flexibility in once they work and 40% need flexibility in the place they work. On common, staff wish to work between two and three days remotely after the pandemic. About 38% staff stated they need a shorter working week altogether, whereas 65% need their employer to offer versatile timing for work.

Job retention: Regardless of willingness to maneuver jobs for extra versatile working preparations, most respondents in India (91%) say they’re happy with their jobs. However, globally, 76% staff say they’re happy with their jobs. Additionally, greater than half (54%) of the staff surveyed from world wide would contemplate leaving their jobs put up the Covid-19 pandemic if they aren’t afforded some type of flexibility in the place and once they work.

Tech funding: The prospect of widespread versatile working is resulting in extra calls for for know-how, each on-site and within the residence workplace. 74% of respondents say they need higher know-how within the workplace (sooner web and videoconferencing), virtually half (45%) say they need firms to improve at-home {hardware} (further screens and headsets), and virtually the identical proportion (44%) would love reimbursement for high-speed web/telephone bills. Nevertheless, regardless of the shift in direction of new methods of working and the fast adoption of digital assembly know-how, a overwhelming majority, i.e. 90% (globally 67%) wish to journey for enterprise reasonably to extensively after the Covid-19 pandemic.

Distant working: The survey additionally canvassed attitudes to present work practices, with worker respondents broadly constructive in regards to the impression of distant working. 63% respondents in India felt that if firm subsidy for residence workplace set-up is supplied by the employer, it might make their work life a lot simpler.