With practically less than a fortnight to go before the new year begins, companies pass a line on the factors that they experienced in this 2022 and take the pulse for what is to come in this 2023. According to a report prepared by experts from the world of work, these are the eight trends that will consolidate in the business world during the coming year.
1. Paranoia about productivity
Senior executives in organizations and the rest of the workforce can’t agree how productive hybrid and remote work models are. This trend sets a reality to be maintained for the coming year.
This aspect is similar to the “push and pull” trend, which began at the beginning of this year when bosses and subordinates could not agree to return to the office in person. The “push and pull” can be defined as the negotiation on certain rules that govern a certain institution.
2. Confidence, a quality of weight
In the new paradigm that is being installed in the world of work, workers want the companies with which they work to establish a bond based on trust with them.
“The best talent wants to be valued for specific objectives that allow them to be flexible with their time and have a healthy balance between their work and personal lives,” specified a report prepared by the multinational Deel.
3. The relevance of quick resignation
In recent years, the quick removing or quick resignation, in Spanish. This phenomenon that arrived, more than anything, with the generation of millennials, and is linked to the opportunities and challenges that their organizations offer their workers —or talents, in business jargon—.
The quick removing It consists of the fact that if a person does not feel satisfied or happy with the new job opportunity, they will not stay long in the company and will slam the door in about a year.
4. Chief Remote Officer, the new role that manages face-to-face
After the pandemic that unleashed the coronavirus, the new ways of working are here to stay in many companies. These new models brought with them new positions within the company such as the Chief Remote Officer, a position also known by its acronym, CROs.
Although this role is more necessary in international companies, the new circumstances make it essential for a professional to manage different instances of face-to-face meetings.
“Tasks such as organizing in-person events, coordinating events in different time zones, compensation strategies, and internal communication tools are some of the responsibilities of CROs,” the report continues.
5. Personalized vacations
With the change of times, themind set work” —that is, the set of beliefs that shape a person’s life— changed completely. And this also includes the ways and times that workers rest.
Technological evolution, the dynamics of labor items, health situations and other aspects caused a change in traditional or mandatory rest, which were delimited by specific periods of the year.
At present, the aim is for vacations to be, rather, personalized both to the times and to the convenience of each worker, in order to enhance their performance.
This labor trend could be synthesized in the following sentence: each worker is unique, their rest is also.
6. Flexibility, an increasingly necessary factor
According to the analysis, about 74% of remote employees are in the 16-34 age range. Likewise, a large portion of these workers began their professional life remotely. The imprint of the new work crews is different from that of the traditional ones and, therefore, so are their aspirations.
In this order, flexibility in the work environment is becoming increasingly essential when new professionals opt for one job offer over another.
7. Eco-friendly
According to a study carried out by the organization NextGen Climate Survey, “83% of the young people of Generation Z -born between 1997 and 2015- are concerned about the health of the planet and consider that this factor impacts their physical health (69%) and mental (75%)”.
This factor makes it increasingly important for companies to incorporate policies in this direction. The workforces, in which generation Z is gaining more and more ground, are demanding initiatives that are aligned with sustainability and the quality of life of workers.
8. Moonlighting
With the rise of remote work and the home officemany workers are betting on having more and more jobs or, in the case of freelancersGet involved in several projects at the same time.
According to the report by the global recruitment services company Deel —which operates in dozens of countries, including Uruguay—, efficient time management deserves to be among the new labor trends for next year.
