Towards a hybrid model of work in companies

Towards a hybrid working model in companies What do studies and analyses say about the future of work?

Teleworking, coworking, workout, flexwork, coliving, digital nomads, burnout, hybridization, flexible spaces, homeoffice, bleisure, Total Revenue Management... The pandemic has filled the news with headlines full of anglicisms giving us data, ideas and orientations that something is happening in the world of work.

Overnight, in March 2020, we went from a basically face-to-face model (which we had never seriously questioned), to a completely remote model and, moreover, at home. Without time to think about it, better or worse, companies and professionals adapted their methods and spaces to be able to continue producing.

The passing of the months began to reveal things, many things. Some of them very good. Others, not so good. And the decline of the COVID, God willing it will not return with the same virulence triggered by new strains, brings us back to a sort of normality to which we arrived transformed. Among many other things, we ask ourselves whether purely face-to-face work is the best model once our lifestyle has changed, and in what way, after the pandemic.

The process of digitization of Society as a consequence of this short but intense period since March 2020, has opened a debate on how to adapt work to this new lifestyle where most of the work can be done remotely. What is going to be the right model from now on.

Companies are betting on hybrid models. Flexible offices and proximity spaces.

It might be a good idea to review the data and surveys conducted during the pandemic.

Savills Aguirre Newman published last September the results of a survey of 100,000 people. And that survey shows some surprising results:

87% of employees in Europe believe the office is essential, 12% say they would work in flex or coworking spaces, up from just 3% in 2019. Twenty-seven percent of respondents answered that they would use an office close to home in addition to their own if they had the option.

Bloomberg estimates that 39% of workers would quit their current job if they were forced to return to their usual job permanently....

PwC and KPMG indicate that only 19% of companies will return to the purely face-to-face model, and that 38% of Spanish CEOs assume a hybrid model with more than 2 days of remote work.

The data seems to indicate that the future points to the workplace being linked to the professional and not the other way around. Sometimes we will go to the office and sometimes we will stay at home working. But it is clear that these will not be the only options. Flexible spaces will have more and more weight and presence.

JLL ventures to predict that in 2030 30% of jobs will be of this type.

In Spain, recent studies such as the one carried out by Randstad Reserarch, indicate that the volume of potential teleworkers is much higher than the supply of flexible workspaces for rent. According to the BdE, more than 6M Spanish professionals could do so which represents an increase of x3.7 with respect to the number of professionals who did so in 2019.

These data clearly indicate the potential of this sector because, although part of this huge volume of working days will be produced as home-office, the vast majority will be developed in spaces better equipped than the private home.

For this reason, eekox provides companies and professionals with a powerful and easy-to-use platform that allows them to locate and rent the optimal flexible space for each activity.

In eekox you can find the flexible spaces of Loom, Networkia, Utopicus, Cink, First Workplaces, the Office, Cübik, GoCoworking and many others in Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Albacete or Las Palmas de Gran Canaria among other cities.