HR for Hybrid Working: How to Adapt People Practices to Support Employees and the Organization

Hybrid working practices are here to stay. After enforced home working during the Covid-19 pandemic, many employees are keen to return to a physical office but do not want to return every day. Instead, they want hybrid working practices which allow some remote working and some office working. The challenge for HR professionals is that organizational policies, processes and practices now need to adapt and ensure that this new working model is effective for the workforce and the business.

Hybrid HR covers everything that people professionals need to know to succeed in a hybrid working model and manage the transition to this new way of working. It covers why and how contractual documents, policies, pay and reward terms need to change and how to manage changing employee expectations as well as how to assess what roles and work can be done partially remotely, how to communicate this to staff and manage the impact on company culture. There is also guidance on how to adapt learning and development (L&D), performance management and wellbeing activities to ensure they support employee development in a hybrid working model. There is expert guidance on how to assess what technology solutions are right for the business and how to manage inductions and exits from the organization when the location of employees is changeable.

Packed full of practical advice, examples and case studies, this book also provides a dedicated section on the new skills needed by HR professionals as organizational roles, structures and processes change in a hybrid working model and explains the shift in how the HR function interacts with its stakeholders, both the business and the workforce