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Let’s abolish the M-F 9-5 in-office-only work model. 💥🤯 Can we all admit this model hasn’t worked for most households for at least a decade before the pandemic? The pandemic just thankfully brought the need for flexibility work schedules to light (one of the only good things that came from this dreadful pandemic). The M-F 9-5 in-office only doesn’t work anymore for so many reasons, such as: ☑️ People care for elderly parents living at home with them and need time to help parents with medical appointments. Others need time to visit their elderly family throughout the week and not just on weekends. ☑️ Some need spread their work time throughout the day to manage their chronic illnesses. ☑️ Parents want to attend their kids’ activities after school and prefer to get back at work after 8/9pm for a few hours. ☑️ Many simply are more productive at night than the mornings. Others work more effectively in 1-2 hour stints and not 4 hour stints with a lunch hour break. ☑️ For society, we can reduce dependence on fast food if we have time to prepare meals. We can improve health if people have time to exercise. ☑️ Keeping medical appointments for ourselves and for family up to date are more possible with flexibility. Getting medical appointments can be tough nowadays and need a day off or an afternoon off to accomplish. ☑️ Some are more productive when they have a combination of alone time and people time—and giving individuals the freedom to make those times happen for themselves in places that work (home or in the office) leads to greater productivity. ☑️ We are a global workplace. Giving employees the ability to manage their schedule working with a global workforce to accommodate multiple-time-zone work while not working or being available 24/7 is crucial. Inc. Magazine wrote the 9-5 mode is dead back in 2016 (link to the article in the comments). Trying to force an in-person, 40-hour, M-F work schedule is breaking society. Our mental health, physical health and relationships are suffering because of it. We can’t expect society to heal if we don’t fix work. It’s time to negotiate job offers so work supports life and not where life supports work. #flexiblework #hybridworking #healing #productivity #worksupportslife
The Inc. Magazine article by Kate Rockwood: https://www.inc.com/magazine/201612/kate-rockwood/tipsheet-productivity.html
But here’s the problem. Now the “flexibility” which is different for everyone, creates the expectation of always being available. Someone creates a task at 10:00 at night that is due for someone else the next day and counts the time you were sleeping as giving enough notice. I’m all for flexible hours but when you are in a job where you depend on others to get your part done (and vice versa), there need to be some boundaries set and a few core hours set by the company. Can I run out to a doctors appointment or start dinner in the middle of the day? Of course. But I have also put in 11-12 hour days ( usually with no lunch or a five-minute snack) for almost two years now. And still the implication is that it’s not enough because I don’t want to work weekends. There is some responsibility on the company’s part to set parameters so that certain employees cannot dictate a 24/7 mentality to others.
The marketplace is responding in kind. Workplace flexibility is the template, regardless of how many hours (if any) one spends at an office. It doesn’t really matter where “here” is as long as you are productive.
Number 5 - reducing Dependency on fast food is blowing my mind Lisa Rangel - that one alone could solve so many issues in our society - and it’s bands generations and Socio economic classes. It could help with mental, physical, and emotional. Post of the day!!
Really good points Lisa Rangel . Ties together perfectly with this post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ludmila-praslova_remote-work-should-be-mostly-asynchronous-activity-6872266795735248896-HrRp Especially important is your point on how central work is in our lives. Without "getting work right" it's impossible to lead a healthy and happy life. Many people can distinguish constraints coming from business necessities and market conditions and coming from bad management or ineffective internal processes. I'd discourage leaders to assume otherwise.
“Work supports life.” That is bumper sticker worthy! Conversations must change to focus on agreements on results and accountability so that people can unleash talent in the highest and most generous way/ without fear. Thanks Lisa for sharing.
Agree! The best thing to happen due to the pandemic was the forced shift to remote work. I love how this has empowered workers and given them choices!
Thanks for posting
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