Back2Work — 5 Must-Do Things to Welcome your Employees
Inventing the New Future after The Pandemic
Returning to work will be a wholly new and different experience for most workers after several months of the Stay@Home period during the covid19 coronavirus pandemic. Expect many employees returning to work to be gripped with reservations and fear, uncertainty and doubt.
They already knew that business is severely down, the value chain disrupted, marketplace disenfranchised and customers have disconnected. Bottomline, returning employees will want to know how the company intends to survive and whether they would still have jobs.
The challenge for leadership post-Covid19 is to restore employees’ trust in the leadership, re-install corporate values, embolden employee engagement and empower their commitment for the eventual corporate recovery of organic growth and profitability.
1) Trust
A person’s behaviour during a crisis betrays his values. This is also true of companies. Employees will not forget the company’s selfish actions during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in February/March 2020. The crisis then was projected to be protracted but not permanent, to last perhaps 6–9 months at least or into the mid-2021. The government had proactively provided several…
