After a year of the pandemic and starting to look for the returning to the office after tht covid-19, some employers and employees are wondering if they are feeling truly ready to go back to their traditional workspace.
According to a suvey conducted by Great Place to Work USA, only 30% of the people interviewed, that at the moment of this study were woking from home due to the pademic, wish to go back to their traditional time and office. Because, according to them, working from home saves time and money on transfers, in addition to being able to carry out other household activities while carrying out their work activities.
In the case of Mexico, the picture is certainly similar. According to a study carried out by the Boston Global Consultant and OCC Mundial in which 208,000 professionals from around the world were interviewed, of which 2,307 reside in Mexico, only 5% of the world’s workers would like to return to their offices, while 62% would agree to return in a hybrid work model if health and mobility conditions improve.
These statistics open up new challenges for companies that are analyzing the possibility of returning to their offices after Covid 19.
This they not only face the possible loss of talent, but also the need to generate extra budget if they start an unplanned reactivation of their face-to-face work activities.
Thinking about this new reality, the need to take legal preventive measures has become a necessity to protect both the integrity of the company’s sensitive information available to the worker, as well as the conditions, supplies, equipment and tasks that the employee must perform.
All these new conditions are legally established in the reform of article 311 of the Mexican Federal Labor Law, which dedicates an entire chapter to "teleworking" indicating the obligations, rights and penalties of workers and employers.
Among the reforms to said article are all the parts that must be stipulated in the worker’s contract like the right way to perform their tasks, the time they must assigned to them, the programs, equipment and information that the employer must provide to the worker and the procedures for supervising and delivering each project carried out.
Although at the beginning of the confinement, some people expressed on social networks that remote work blurred the line between being responsible and being available outside the agreed working hours, this reform to the law also indicates the obligations of the employer to protect the health and integrity of the worker, guaranteeing respect for their intimacy and privacy.
Definitely, returning to our work spaces after Covid-19 represents new areas of opportunity to be taken into consideration, which would translate into an optimization of the economic resources of the company if planification is carried out considering the administrative and legal areas of the company.
Whether your company is considering returning to work in your offices, or if you are contemplating the possibility of establishing a work-from-home or hybrid system, do not forget to do the necessary planning and follow the legal procedures that allow you to secure your assets.
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