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A lot has changed ever since the current millennium started. Smartphones have become an essential tool for those that own them. You can now order anything online and have it delivered to your home in a matter of minutes. You can live in North America and work for a company in Europe. These changes have had a beneficial impact on office culture.

Performance Enablement

Technology is helping organizations shift from performance management to performance enablement. Performance management is whereby managers supervise employees so that they achieve company objectives. At the end of a financial period, the supervisor writes a review to describe employee performance. Unfortunately, performance management cannot help your company these days. If you set objectives today, they can change tomorrow because of new technology. As a result, you can no longer rely on long-term growth strategies.

With that in mind, performance enablement is the way to go. Performance enablement is whereby you help employees get results by providing them with resources. For example, you can provide training and information to employees so that they keep up with current trends and perform at their best.

Flexibility

Today, your employees can work from home because there’s technology to facilitate that process. Instant communication tools and video conferencing allows you to contact your colleagues from anywhere. There are also online project management platforms that help employees work on a project together by posting constant updates and holding virtual discussions. You don’t have to supervise your workers all the time to make them perform. Studies show that flexibility improves employee productivity.

Some organizations are even coming up with flexible working hours. Instead of the traditional nine to five, companies are allowing employees to decide their reporting times. Employees can report at any time of the day as long as they work for 8 hours. Consider this strategy if you want to minimize lateness and improve worker performance.

Virtual team building is another aspect of flexibility. You don’t have to invest thousands of dollars paying for accommodation and hiring a self-improvement coach to lead team-building sessions in exotic locations. You can do everything remotely. An example of a remote team-building exercise is a virtual escape room. When you pay for this exercise, you get a link to the escape room platform. You can then share this link with your employees to experience the game together.

Technology has also led to flexibility in hiring. Your company can hire professionals from around the world. That means you have access to a large talent pool. Flexible hiring helps you lower your labor costs because you can recruit professionals from countries without strict labor guidelines.

Transparency

There was a time when the information was on a need-to-know basis. You were never given the full details of company events and situations if you were a low-level employee. But things are changing. Organizations have recognized the importance of exchanging information.

Brilliant ideas and opportunities come from working together. Your employees can help you come up with the next big thing. Organizational hierarchy no longer matters as much as it used to. Today, departments share information with each other and all employees know what’s going on with the company.

There is more transparency. Employees can share their opinions with top-level management and get recognition for their efforts. The shared ideas help your company stay ahead of the competition.

Value-Driven

Technology has exposed both employers and employees to limitless opportunities. A longtime employee can easily quit their job if they feel that’s not for them. That same employee can pay for an online course and embark on a new career path. As an employer, you know how hard it can be to find a good employee. Unfortunately, money is no longer the best way to retain a worker.

The modern workforce is more demanding. They want something more out of a job. Your employees want to feel as if they’re part of something bigger than themselves. As a result, companies are transforming their corporate culture to focus more on morals and values. Firms are getting more involved with communities because they honestly want to help out and show the world they care.

To conclude, technology has transformed the way companies do things. Corporations have become more compassionate about the environment and social welfare, more supportive to workers, more transparent, and more flexible.