The employee experience has undergone an epochal shift, with hybrid work now firmly established as a feature of the future. As organizations strive to find the correct balance between providing employees with the flexibility they desire and the need to ensure that all employees are performing at a high level of productivity, the one variable that seems to keep cutting through as a common denominator of success is employee engagement.
At Apidel Technologies, we see hybrid work not as a halfway measure but as a viable opportunity to reimagine the employee experience as one that is more engaged, more enabled, and more purposeful.
The Rise of Hybrid Work
Employees now divide their time between home and office as the hybrid work norm. The Office of the Future blends the best of both worlds: flexibility for the individual and time for the whole team to come together. Yet, the hybrid work model has new challenges: keeping your people in sync, maintaining your corporate culture, and preventing engagement erosion. It has to work better if it’s going to work at all.
How Hybrid Work Fuels Engagement at Apidel Technologies
At Apidel Technologies, we’ve developed a hybrid model that places people and purpose at its core. This is how our model fosters engagement:
1. Flexibility with Accountability
We give workers the ability to manage their time, in conjunction with a rigorous focus on the clear objectives and results they are to achieve. This dual focus encourages both kinds of ownership—managing your own time and fulfilling the shared responsibilities that make any group work.
2. Technology-Enabled Connection
We ensure that everyone, no matter where they are, feels included, connected, and able to contribute through the use of virtual platforms and collaborative tools.
3. Regular Touchpoints & Feedback Loops
Hybrid does not equal disconnected. Our managers have regular check-ins, feedback sessions, and appreciation moments to ensure high levels of engagement.
4. Building a Culture of Inclusivity
From virtual town halls to in-person team-building events, we construct a cohesive culture that spans the physical distance.
5. Focus on Well-Being
Our hybrid model allows for so much more than just mental health resources, right alongside access to a schedule as flexible as your brain needs it to be (which, let’s be real, your brain has a lot of needs these days). Above all, it’s a compassionate place to work. If that isn’t an emphasis on ‘well-being,’ then I don’t know what is.
Conclusion: A New Era of Work, Built on Connection
At Apidel Technologies, we’re committed to creating a work environment where employees are engaged and where the work they do has real purpose, no matter their physical location. Engagement is the centerpiece of our hybrid model, and the good news is that by working to boost engagement across our employee base, we’re also improving productivity at the same time.