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Hybrid workspace and management after the Covid era: technology and tools to support this change

Petsas Georgios-Panagiotis

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During and after the end of the Covid era there was a rapid shift from conventional to hybrid work models, without the mandatory presence of workers in the workplace.According to recent surveys, the percentage of remote work has increased rapidly compared to hybrid employment in previous years. This has created a new reality in the labour market, with a large percentage of companies seeking to maintain or even permanently expand this flexible model. A variety of scientific data and research, such as the Gartner survey extends the appreciation of the hybrid model into the current era (post-covid era).Given that the Covid-19 pandemic has radically changed the labour market, the research paper seeks to analyse and identify the technologies that were developed during the pandemic and continue to support the transition to the hybrid model of double-win work in the contingent work relationship. Beneficiaries of the work are business executives, workers, decision makers, and researchers. The study can shed light on the best ways to manage the hybrid work model and highlight the qualitative results of the early years of adoption of this model. The scope of the study includes suggestions for improving the well-being and productivity of workers, a more effective understanding of the opportunities and constraints of hybrid work for decision-makers, and support for research into the new work model by the scientific community.Initially, a combination of literature review, data collection, data analysis and inference will be employed to develop the methodological approach to the issue. Conduct a thorough analysis of the relevant academic literature on distance working, digital technologies and related issues, as well as the management of the hybrid working model. The formalisation of research questions and hypotheses will strengthen and support the course of the alternative working mode by offering important insights into this burning issue. Data collection: collecting and comparing information from databases (academic and professional) using quantitative or qualitative research techniques such as surveys, interviews, case studies or focus groups. Both quantitative and qualitative methodologies are envisaged. The study questions and hypotheses will determine the data collection techniques.Overall, the paper is expected to provide important insights into the changes in the hybrid work model (global assessment) since the Covid era and provide useful recommendations and tools to its scholars. The identification of significant changes in communication, collaboration, productivity and employee well-being in hybrid work models since the pandemic era are criteria that are key factors in determining whether or not the hybrid model will remain.Technologies, tools and practices that support hybrid work models, such as project management programmes, collaboration platforms and digital communication tools (products that have emerged in the meantime) will be mentioned and compared. Based on the results obtained, recommendations will be developed on how to develop and manage hybrid working models (advice to addressees).Finally, a deeper understanding of the potential and difficulties of hybrid models for employees and how they affect career development is seeked between job satisfaction and work-life balance (positive and negative).

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