The habit of hybrid work is now “catalogued” within a concept of “new normal”, that is, a practice that entered common use following the experience of 2020/21, which made us experience that it’s possible to work in a different way, by breaking down the barriers of physical places. But there’s more: flexibility in work has become for some a value in itself, within the scale of priorities of how we live.
According to some (in this regard we cite the study by Soprana Personnel, a recruitment company in the administrative and technical field, but it is only one of many), flexibility in work – hybrid, asynchronous – is functional to maintaining the work commitment of the new generations . The generation born in the first decade of 2000, called generation Z, proves to have different points of reference with respect to career and work commitment, according to the study due to having to deal with the pandemic: well-being, physical as well as emotional, linked to free time and personal aspects, it is equally important as work, and career-related ambitions give way to the work / personal life balance. A generation that also demonstrates that it can change jobs and companies with relative ease, moving on to new tasks and above all to new ways that better reflect this aspiration.
The ability to work flexibly, from home as well as from the office, while traveling or from your local cafe, is one of the aspects companies need to consider, especially with regard to recruiting young people, to maintain their commitment over time.
