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We're experienced hybrid working consultants
We’ve successfully introduced hybrid working at businesses around the world.
What we do as hybrid working consultants
We work with you to provide a scientifically-backed hybrid working strategy that is aligned with your business challenges, including:
- How many days per week should staff come into the office?
- Should staff be encouraged or mandated to return?
- What is the purpose of the workplace in a hybrid culture?
- How can company culture be maintained in a hybrid workplace?
- How do we achieve a seamless experience regardless of location?
- How do we implement remote working without impacting productivity?
We engage with employees across your organization to ensure our approach is inclusive and holistic. We’ll support you every step of the way to make certain your hybrid working policies stand the test of time.
How we successfully implement hybrid working
Develop the future workplace vision
Working closely with your leadership team, we learn where they envision the organization to be in the next two years. We understand that some leaders have concerns about hybrid working and we dedicate time to reassuring individuals about the steps we’ll take together to avoid potential challenges.
Understand what’s happening
The next step is to discover how your company operates. This involves analyzing the current state of employee sentiment and concerns. We establish a baseline set of facts through interactive workshops, interviews, staff surveys and desk utilization studies. This helps us build a comprehensive picture of how work happens in your organization, employee attitudes, and a clear understanding of occupancy and utilization.
Train your leaders to become hybrid working leaders
We provide manager training for implementation of hybrid working. Our research with the Center for Evidence Based Management, identified that a transformational style of leadership is likely to be most successful in leading teams and that a psychologically safe culture will support teams and individuals to perform at their best.
We work with leaders at all levels of the organization so they understand the nuances and practices for leading hybrid teams and equip them with the techniques to confidently facilitate team engagements to create Working Together Agreements. Working Together Agreements can cover a range of topics including:
- Location of work
- Collaboration
- Time together
- Workload management
- Time management
- Use of collaborative tools
- Staff onboarding process
- Addressing difficult topics
- Performance management
As part of this process, teams share ideas for how they can enhance their performance in the context of the Six Factors, which we have identified as the critical elements of high performing teams. These conversations help employees to feel engaged and, in the process, embed behavioral changes over the long-term.
Enable adoption
We develop a scalable framework and produce company-specific playbooks to enable results to be replicated across your organization globally. We understand that implementing change requires skill and patience. We can work with you to deliver customized change management programs designed specifically for your organization.
Why not get started today by checking out our hybrid working policy example?
Why adopt hybrid working?
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The number of extra days employers get from hybrid workers
Analysis of the latest academic research and our own studies has shown that on average hybrid working employees deliver nearly two extra weeks of work annually for their employer.
The results show employees often work harder and better in a hybrid environment. What’s more, businesses that embrace hybrid working stand to achieve considerable savings. By using their offices more efficiently, many are able to reduce their real estate portfolio and shrink their carbon footprint. When the benefits to staff wellbeing are also taken into account, the question becomes why would you not adopt hybrid working?
What makes us the leading hybrid working consultancy?
At AWA, we’ve been helping organizations navigate a path to agile models of working for more than 30 years.
Our research and in-depth knowledge of science and neuroscience has revealed the six most important factors behind high-performing teams.
This framework is an integral part of how we assess the effectiveness of a workforce. We also run one of the world’s biggest hybrid working indexes which tracks the development of hybrid working strategies and office rate attendance.
The pandemic forced businesses to rapidly adopt hybrid working. Many firms are still discovering the complexities of this approach. For example, in a hybrid workplace, attendance patterns can be variable and unpredictable. Traditional methods for modelling and managing space occupancy are limited and don’t address the challenges of hybrid space utilization. Our sophisticated planning tools are designed to model space requirements in flexible environments and enable active management of the hybrid workplace.
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Our industry-leading Hybrid Working Index shows the majority of offices have introduced some form of hybrid working
Here are some more reasons why we’re uniquely well-placed to assist your company:
- We understand the challenges your business faces, but don’t have pre-packaged solutions.
- We tailor our approach to align with the needs of your organization.
- Our agile and global team are experts in the field with decades of experience.
- We’re independent and evidence-based.
- We are global yet local with associates and offices around the world. We deliver industry-leading services tailored to local sensitivities.
- We transform the world of work for global organizations. Learn how we have successfully introduced hybrid working policies for large organizations by reading the case studies below.