{"id":26009,"date":"2021-08-25T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextspace.co\/sg\/?p=26009"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:34:09","slug":"hybrid-and-wfh-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextspace.co\/sg\/hybrid-and-wfh-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid Workspace and Work From Home in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Practice of an Hybrid Work Style and Working from Home in Singapore<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In this post pandemic era, when commuting to work is made difficult due to ever increasing restrictions and precautions and with COVID-19 taking control over how we live daily, companies around the globe have adopted the practice of working from the comfort of their home in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Since the world has been affected for a longer than anticipated period of time, people have slowly begun to adopt this lifestyle, feeling more comfortable and increasingly becoming more efficient in doing business from their home office. To conduct business operations safely, employees in Singapore have been asked to manage their work and maintain discipline and decorum in their homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Working from home has been proven to be more relaxing and does not affect the efficiency of an employee’s work and more companies are planning to carry on with this practice post-pandemic. Balancing this type of lifestyle is an art form and requires rules and regulations to be put in place before beginning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prospect and Reality of Remote Work<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Remote work was not that common in the past, especially in Singapore. It was often only considered to accommodate employees and their families in rare and specific medical conditions or special personal cases. <\/span><\/p>\n

The belief in non-seriousness and the absence of a manager at home made it impossible to ascertain the practices and productivity of an employee working from home. With technology always evolving and with government mandated regulations requiring the practice of employees working from home due to the pandemic, the reality that companies would no longer need a brick and mortar office by allowing employees the flexibility and choice in their work environment is now a possibility. <\/span><\/p>\n

In comparison to its peers, Singapore has chosen a very different approach to the epidemic. The city and its government has implemented a series of strict measures, including public gathering bans, halted schools, conducted special work arrangements for civil officials including working from home and remote working, and has made a request to the private sector and its organizations to make similar arrangements. All this despite the low numbers of covid cases, is due to their prevention over cure approach. <\/span><\/p>\n

A recent research conducted by Lingnan University of Singapore has concluded that over 80% of Singapore workers prefer to work from home at least 1 day a week and preferably more, out of their 5 working days when the pandemic is over<\/span>1<\/span>. With the uncertainty of the pandemic, it is beginning to look as though remote work away from the office is the new norm.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Employee Productivity Concerns<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The idea of working from home would\u2019ve been ignored and most employers would have balked at this idea if it was introduced less than a decade ago all because of a lack of understanding, statistics and a prejudice towards the practice. To understand how it may affect an individual’s performance, an international survey was conducted\u00a0 by the World Bank<\/span>2<\/span>. The results showed that remote workers were comparatively the same and surprisingly sometimes more efficient and productive than in a traditional office environment. The stats were broken down as follows:<\/span><\/p>