Impact of the pandemic over the work culture

As the novel coronavirus pandemic progresses, business leaders are telling that they have never
experienced anything like this before. There is no script for dealing with a crisis that is this far-reaching
and unpredictable. The only way to respond effectively is to decide what actions to take as the situation
unfolds.
COVID-19 is forcing many teams into crisis mode, as they rush to meet customer and employee needs in
our new socially distanced reality.
Organizations with experienced crisis management teams are urgently adding capacity and adapting to
distributed working models. And those who haven’t built crisis response teams before are grappling with
how to rapidly train employees and get access to the right tools.
As coronavirus is affecting workplaces around the world, employers need to adjust to this new situation
and develop a strategy to prevent damages coronavirus can bring. When we say damages, we mean both
the safety and the productivity of your entire workforce.
This is especially true in large corporations with thousands of employees. Many of them have, by now,
closed their offices and are trying to find alternatives for running the business as smoothly as possible.

Coronavirus is most likely creating all these three threats a business can ever face. If crisis management is
not handled properly or in a timely manner, you can put your employees’ health at risk.
This will automatically have a negative influence on your company’s reputation as both employer and a
service or product provider. Consequently, it will be inevitable to experience financial losses.
The Coronavirus is disrupting the workplace. Employees have to adapt to new ways of working in no
time, business leaders have to find ways to ensure the safety of their employees, IC and HR teams are
developing new ways of communicating with remote teams, and the list goes on.
It goes without saying that all these sudden changes are impacting employees' wellbeing and mental
health. They feel stressed, insecure, and worried. They're worried about their jobs, the viability of their
company, and their ability to take care of their families.

In order to stop the virus from spreading, people should be less mobile than they usually are, and they
should certainly avoid contacts with too many people.
Luckily, remote work is common today, and it has become an option that most employers offer. However,
not all businesses are requesting their employees to work from home.

“We can use the pandemic work-from-home experience as a way to really identify
what’s important.”
According to remote work strategist Laurel Farrer, it typically takes six to 12 weeks for a smooth
transition from on-site to remote work under normal circumstances.
As the pandemic is spreading at unprecedented pace, businesses are adjusting on the fly. They don't have
the option to offer a smooth transition to remote work to their employees, which is problematic for most
of them.
Analysts and experts agree that the shift to remote work we are experiencing now is not a temporary
measure. Instead, it's redefining the future of work.

The coronavirus could be the catalyst that gets firms to adopt remote work policies in far greater numbers
than we see now, even after the pandemic ends. This is an opportunity to essentially restructure
organizations
Covid-19 has ushered in a new era in which work from home is a necessity and not a privilege. The
success of WFH and the benefits associated with it, will encourage organizations to accept it as a norm in
coming days.