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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Slovakia’s shared service and enterprise service sector tailored rapidly, rolling out workfromhome programmes to maintain operations working.

However like so many different companies world wide, corporations within the sector right here are actually shifting to get their workers again into workplaces.

Whereas the productiveness and effectivity of shared service and enterprise service centres didn’t lower throughout lockdowns, creativity, velocity of downside decision, concept sharing and relationships did endure, bosses within the sector have mentioned. Varied laws on office-based working was launched in response to the pandemic, and rules nonetheless in place as we speak imply that employers can’t pressure workers to return to the workplace except they will present it’s vital.

Executives are using varied methods to lure folks again, together with upgrading workplaces, providing free fruit and occasional to workers, organising yoga and aikido courses, and in some instances even having a therapeutic massage therapist readily available to assist workers unwind if they should, amongst others.

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However as Lucia Gogová, Slovakia HR Operations chief & Strategic HR accomplice at IBM in Slovakia, factors out, it’s unlikely the supply of free snacks will get folks again into workplaces. “A banana gained’t encourage folks to go to an workplace,” she tells The Slovak Spectator, “they want a full bundle of advantages.” “They’ll meet with folks, work together after which go and get that banana,” she says.

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Flexibility earlier than Covid

Even earlier than the pandemic, versatile working regimes have been properly established within the shared companies and enterprise service sector. Many corporations allowed workers to earn a living from home or from one other different location inside the nation, often for at some point per week or a number of days a month.