Ernst & Young, also known as EY, is one of the most important multinationals in professional services all over the world. Like every year, it just launched its survey about the working expectations for 2022: Work Reimagined Survey. It is a global survey conducted on more than 17,000 employees and 1,575 employers in 22 countries and 26 industries, whose findings explore the main motivation for rotation and retention of the workforce and the scopes of the last hybrid and remote work trends.
The main conclusions of EY’s survey for 2022 are four:
In the last year, 68% of the interviewed employers admit that the rotation of the employees has increased in the last 12 months, while 43% of the employees state that it is most likely to leave their current job in the next year (in the same survey in 2021, the percentage was only of 7%). The tendency to change jobs divides into two groups: Generation Z or Millennials (53%) and the technology and hardware workers (60%).
In the last year, 68% of the interviewed employers admit that the rotation of the employees has increased in the last 12 months, while 43% of the employees state that it is most likely to leave their current job in the next year (in the same survey in 2021, the percentage was only of 7%). The tendency to change jobs divides into two groups: Generation Z or Millennials (53%) and the technology and hardware workers (60%).
Despite the evidence, the implementation of hybrid work shows divergent expectations between employees and employers: almost a fourth part (22%) of the organizations’ managers interviewed expect every employee to return to the office five times a week. This divergence could drive even more the race to hire talent for better working conditions, a highly appreciated incentive nowadays.
Despite the benefits of hybrid work, the employees also acknowledge that a better acceptance of flexible working conditions can slow down career development. In this sense, there is a significant gap of perception between employees and employers: while 72% of the employers believe that the new ways of working will make the workforce lose competitive advantage, only 56% of the employees share this opinion.
After analyzing the results of their global survey, EY gives five recommendations to every labor market:
Hybrid work is a reality that came to stay. The organizations must build an intentionally flexible structure to understand which roles adapt better to hybrid and remote work and to build the necessary systems to create value while optimizing these functions.
It is necessary to reinvent the workplace. The employers must consider an integrated and renewed work plan that contemplates the physical space and the necessary comforts to empower the hard-working employees without neglecting the learning in the physical office, as well as in the digital world.
We must create a new technology experience at work. The pandemic brought the importance of a good user interface and design for business. To EY, this kind of implementation could contribute to the efforts identifying areas that require a change in culture and move the organization to a more equitable reality.
In this sense, OCP TECH, an IT leader company in the region, arrives at the same conclusions. Ignacio Van Houtte, Engineering Manager at OCP TECH repeats a motto which is seen as a mantra in the organization: “Work is what one does, regardless of how and where.” He also added that the company projects hybrid working environments through the adoption of tools and platforms that integrate our portfolio.
To accomplish this, Van Houtte explained that Webex and its multiple integrations that go from the operation of managed services based on traditional technology or Meraki, to services built on cloud infrastructure. These are some of the tangible options to continue maximizing benefits, as well as easing the rules of the game to every participant: employers and employees.