Loneliness drives young workers back to their desks
Live MintManagers hoping to lure employees into offices may find their youngest and newest staff are their strongest allies. Few companies claim to have fully solved the puzzle, yet early career professionals stand to lose out the most if disconnection and “artificial silos” are reinforced once offices reopen, Smets said. Helen Jamieson, managing director of human resources consultancy Jaluch, who has focused on hybrid solutions for over a decade, says young workers who may still wish to work mostly at home “don’t understand what they may be missing” in terms of long-term career development. Jamieson advocates dedicated “collaboration days,” and suggests that new hires and young staff could work mostly from offices during their first six months, before opening up work-from-home options. “Because quite frankly if companies don’t look after young people, they’ll lose them.” Organisational psychologist Viola Kraus, who worked on Sharp’s European survey, says firms should engage with staff on how they fared over the last year and identify critical needs.
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