Human Resources: The Way to Cut Costs in Lean Times by Optimizing ‘Anytime, Anywhere Work’

It is a new day. It’s time to rethink, re-tool, revamp. What yesterday seemed like a proven way of trimming costs, getting the best performance and pushing the people equation no longer applies. The trend toward ‘anytime, anywhere work’ is all the rage. Simply an unstoppable force, this new way of working and managing reduces overhead, eliminates distractions that compromise performance, and feeds employee engagement that boosts profitability. But how do you make such a transformation work? How do you manage it? How can HR be the hero instead of the villain in this systemic change?

HR professionals can leverage the unstoppable transformation to ‘anytime, anywhere work’ to reduce their organization’s cost and increase its performance. And you can do it without losing your best talent or your mind.

This ‘next generation in workplace flexibility’ includes formal flexible work arrangements (telework, flexible schedules), day-to-day informal flex and flexible careers and goes beyond to simply eliminate barriers of work time/location in order to get the work done.

A smart antidote to layoffs. Reduced work schedule and workload options -- inviting volunteers for 80% jobs, for example, can surface people who welcome a break, especially if it means fewer layoffs avoided. This ‘flexible downsizing’ is the cure for the human capital drain and productivity repercussion of across-the-board layoffs. With flex you can keep the talent but cut the overhead and be poised for the upturn.

Flexwork has morphed from a nice thing to offer employees to a strategic imperative that HR is charged with expanding, promoting with the need to find a consistent way to manage across all the systems of the organization. No longer an employee ‘program’, it now must be integrated across talent management processes, diversity efforts, talent acquisition and retention, IT, facilities planning, learning and development, health and wellness, and risk management.

Whether you are considering new flexible work strategies, need to increase your own knowledge or to move your culture, come and refresh your knowledge, discover the changing shape of this trend and equip your organization with new tools to help it thrive.

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