Happy and hybrid: supporting your teams wherever they are

Remote first teams are becoming the norm, but managing hybrid teams can sometimes be a minefield…

Employees today expect more from their job, with the main draw to accepting new roles being flexibility. Nowadays, your teams prefer more autonomy and say in how and where they work, and if you want to retain the best talent it’s essential that you not only feasibly accommodate, but can appropriately manage your remote first teams.

Managing hybrid teams can be a challenge, especially when you want to ensure your teams are getting the most out of their working environments. With COVID cases rising again, the preference to work from home is rising too, so we’ve pulled together some tips on how to get the most out of your employees, wherever they are.

Check in regularly

It’s essential that you team members don’t feel forgotten about when they’re working from home. It’s easy to inadvertently neglect people when you aren’t seeing them every day, but keeping track of everyone equally is all part and parcel of managing hybrid teams.

Regular check ins and virtual coffee dates may seem simplistic, but they could go a long way towards ensuring your teams feel valued.

Keep things accessible and relevant

If your company truly embraces the merits of hybrid working, it’s important you make sure that the things that matter most to your employees are on hand and available wherever they are.

Their employee benefits, for example, should be easy to access, uncomplicated, and functional. Your employee benefits package ultimately forms part of your ability to attract and retain, so it would be well worth your while to ensure that, wherever they are, your teams can access their benefits from their phone or laptop, all in one place, whenever they may need them.

Benefits such as EAPs or schemes that offer online counselling, for example, are indispensable, so make sure your teams can access them easily when they feel they need to.

Make life easier

This isn’t strictly about making life easier for your teams, but more for you. If you feel you are wasting too much time on admin, manual reports, and software jumping then do something about it!

Platforms such as Lumina could be the best solution for you and your employees. Instead of expending hours of valuable time with the fiddly stuff, you could integrate your HR software and your employee benefits all in one place. Managing hybrid teams without having to switch between a million different tabs and tables seems like a dream, but it could be a reality very easily.

Making life easier for yourself will ultimately make life easier for your teams by default, allowing you to expend more time and energy in areas that really need your support.

To book a free 15 minute demo of Lumina, simply get in touch with our team who can show you just how much a platform like Lumina can impact your remote first teams!

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