How the workplace has changed since Covid.

Covid had a lot of unintended consequences one of them was that it’s seismically shifted the way people work and where they work. Long gone are the days of people working for a business which is within commutable distance on daily basis. Now, people have got the option to work for anyone, anywhere. 

This has completely changed the goalposts for businesses as they can now bring people in that were previously out of area, massively widening the talent pool at who is available to work for that company. 

However, it’s not all good news as people are now a lot harder to pin down in the workplace as many people work remotely it’s hard to hold people accountable to tasks that need to be completed and naturally as a consequence of this things happen at a slower pace, decisions take longer to go up and down the decision-making ladder and ultimately change takes longer to implement. 

People also want more out of the workplace. People want a sense of belonging from work which they would have previously got from a sports club or practicing a hobby but actually Covid in many peoples eyes as prioritised the importance of the workplace and a sense of belonging that your work should give you. This has completely changed the make up of what a business need to offer to its employees from a well-being. 

It seems that people are also a lot less resilient. If people run into something difficult in the workplace, they quit. If someone gets spoken to in a way that they don’t like, they quit. This tantrum like behaviour stems from the snowflake culture that we’ve incubated as a society over the last 15 years. When people talk about ‘the snowflake culture’ people naturally think generation Z and yes, generation Z were a large part of the problem before Covid but actually since Covid ‘the snowflake culture’ has spread across the entire workforce and what we’re seeing now is some employers reassessing how they are to deal with these employees who are quitting at the first sign of struggle. Believe it or not staff turnover has never been higher than in the last financial year. 

So it begs the question, why did more people leave their jobs in the last financial year than ever before? Is it because they realise that employers treat them like shit; maybe or is it because they’re a fucking snowflake; probably. I think all of this stems from the biggest challenge businesses face in the wake of Covid; social media, which I will address that I’m in my next post…

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