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Giving the power to the employee to decide whether or not they wish to return to an office
setting is an interesting HRM strategy. This allows employees to take control and drive the reins
of their career and accountability. This gives the employee the comfort of their own environment
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while still allowing them to keep a corporate job. This could have extreme positive effects on
employees in several ways. They could respond to the freedom of such a choice by being more
creative, getting more done in the comfort of their home and more. The quality of work could
improve if employees are in a better environment, which most would prefer their home or remote
location opposed to an office setting (Sull & Bersin, 2020).
An article published in Forbes magazine stated that employees that work from home may
be happier and in return, produce better work (2020). Instead of having the stress of an office
environment, employees may find their home environment more conducive to effective efforts.
Also, there is time saved in commuting, traveling and lunch breaks in an off-site environment,
rather than working remotely in an accessible place.
Talent Management
One challenge in talent management that Twitter will have to take on is the perception of
working from home for employees. In a recent study conducted on Twitter, the pandemic’s
business effects were measured and the attitude of the workforce was surveyed to see how people
were perceiving working from home. The study’s results revealed that workers were feeling
either happy that they got to work from home or hopeless that the unknown of their career was so
terrifying (Dubey &Tripathi, 2020). Happiness versus hopelessness are two very polar opposite
reactions. Therefore, it is telling that either employees are content with the working conditions or
they crave structure. Structure must be implemented by Twitter to make sure that employees are
aware of goals, expectations and task potentials. By the CEO stating that working from home
would be up in the air indefinitely, it could have a reverse reaction on some employees that need
more direction and concrete guidance. Therefore, moving forward with remote working, the
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company must strategize to manage employees and their schedules loosely so that the employee
has the control of their own schedule and task management, but there is a clear idea of what is
expected of each staff member.
HR may deal with the occasional employee that is clocked-in but not actually working.
Working from home may be distracting to some, rather than positive. Therefore, there are apps
and programs that HR can run to make sure an employee is actually working when they say they
are. Managing accountability and task completion should be done by HR so that employees are
not given too much freedom to roam without being tracked and monitored. When too much