How has the Virtual Workplace Helped during the COVID-19 Pandemic?


Everyone around the globe is currently going through a tough time. We never expected our lives to become stunned because of the covid-19 pandemic. In the beginning, we weren’t able to understand the seriousness of the issue. But later, the lockdowns and curfews led us all into a new routine. We slowly learned and have started to live along with this virus.

Our daily lives have been altered to this new ‘normal.’ Likewise, the corporate industries have also begun to work virtually. They have advised their employees to stay at home and work online. They had to move their workers and connect center agencies to home offices, with complete security, network connectivity, and access to applications. But has this virtual workplace been really helpful? Read further to know more.

• Working online has truly helped the companies during this pandemic. If we had to imagine the world facing a pandemic like Covid 19 without these virtual platforms, the entire world would have starved for food and other essentials. But fortunately, virtual applications such as zoom, Microsoft teams, google meet, and other applications have helped us all to lead our lives gracefully despite these difficult times. Online workplaces have reduced the risk of the virus’s spread to an incredible extent. If these applications weren’t available, all the companies and organizations would have faced economic stability problems.

• It has helped in doing the work that had been done in the organizations from the employee’s home itself. Virtual workplaces have reduced the movement of employees from one place to another. It indirectly helps the government impose strict restrictions and rules to reduce the virus’s spread. As a blessing in disguise, some organizations have yielded more profit than ever before. Online workplaces have reduced a lot of expenses for the company, such as the electricity bills, the food expenses, and monthly coupons and vouchers of the employees. A lot of start-up companies have visibly grown during this pandemic. As the entire is facing an economic crisis, many experienced organizations have sought the help of start-ups for their business projects.

 The flexible work timings have helped the employees to work freely in their own desired time. It allows them to work with a free mind, without the corporate stress and pressure. Employees can take a little rest or a short nap in between their work. This may keep them refreshed and would increase their thinking and creative processes. Since it is a lockdown, even the kids are at home. Virtual work has helped a lot of families to take care of their children while working. In some families, both the father and mother may work. It is also impossible to call someone else to help. Online workplaces have helped in solving these humanitarian issues too.

• While some research has hinted that remote work may be isolating, it also makes the competing preferences that workers are balancing very noticeable — even sometimes entirely so due to the popularity of video calling apps. This can join employees with the sense that they are in this strain of balancing work and personal duties together.

• Whether it’s children or pets or escape rooms that are popping up on the calls during Zoom meets, remote work has created relaxation in the authentic rules of professional performance and ended in a virtual workplace that is also adjustable and more humane. It has caused more comfortable workplace attitudes. Preliminary research on how virtual work has affected specialists at accounting firms across the world suggests that working from home has essential suggestions for how accountants, or any expert working from home for that subject, contact their expertise and reliability in a virtual workplace.


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• According to a new survey by a magazine, nearly one-third of companies state that their workers are working virtually during the Covid-19 lockdown. That’s approximately twice greater than the level recorded before the Pandemic began. The survey also discovered that just over one-fourth of employers said they are willing to offer more workers the opportunity to continue virtual work once the Pandemic lockdown has passed, with almost 16 percent saying they intend to make it obligatory. Many accounting firm workers have suggested that nearly all of their businesses will let employees at all rank levels work from home, at least part-time, in the future. Online work is here to stay and will possibly have a constant influence on how work is carried.

• Research suggests that rather than withdrawing from how one is recognized professionally, these impressions into co-workers’ personal spaces can increase workplace communications. They are seeing an employee’s cat or meeting their kid on-screen grants a sense of community that people used to get at work and are now seriously wanting. These on-live interactions allow employees to reconnect or get to know each other in a new way. Seeing a co-worker’s children on a Zoom meeting helps co-workers get to know each other better. They also allow workers to see their colleagues as a fellow friend with competing preferences, and they subsequently become more adaptable and flexible as work and private lives overlap. This may mean being more understanding of an incomplete deadline or more understanding of a tight work schedule.

 There are many tips available on how to dress while working from home. Since the commencement of the lockdown, workwear has become frequently casual. While a minimum level of etiquette is maintained through video calls with customers, respondents are more informal with their colleagues. Some respondents even have said hosting virtual “Casual Thursdays” is a fun team-building activity. The choice to dress more casually is a wish for comfort and reflects how the workers feel about themselves and how they want others to look at them. Jennifer Baumgartner, a clinical psychologist, explains that clothes often show how you think about yourself. For annoyed employees who are balancing multiple private and professional responsibilities, being seen in a sweatshirt and track pants shows the hurdles they’re facing during the Lockdown.

Online workplaces have helped people think many things out of the box from their regular streams. Many new ideas have been proposed, and many instruments have been created to make our lives simpler while working from home. Most educational institutes that were once facing challenges are now comfortable teaching and conducting the exams online. Another important advantage is that while most of the works are stored in the cloud databases, it has made the work easy for the organizations to work on their employees’ project at any time.

Many people suggest that virtual work shifts the focus from what people are wearing to what they speak and what they can achieve. Online work allows leveling the sporting field and emphasizes skill and expertise over how workers present themselves. Altogether many studies expose the possible positive advantages of working from home during a chronic pandemic. But will this pave the way to a permanent shift in work schedules? Many companies have started to impose plans to make their employees work remotely even after the pandemic. There is also a strong hope to experience such changes in the future due to their positive effects on the corporate culture.

Hence the Virtual workplaces are a blessing in disguise during this pandemic.

Author Bio:

Charlotte Lin is a content creator at escaperoom.comOpens in a new tab.. She’s a passionate young woman, mother to an amazing nine-year-old, and an avid reader. Over the years, writing has helped her explore and understand the world as well as her own self. She loves to travel, meet new people, and spend quality time with her daughter. You can find her on LinkedIn.

Steve Todd

Steve Todd, founder of Open Sourced Workplace and is a recognized thought leader in workplace strategy and the future of work. With a passion for work from anywhere, Steve has successfully implemented transformative strategies that enhance productivity and employee satisfaction. Through Open Sourced Workplace, he fosters collaboration among HR, facilities management, technology, and real estate professionals, providing valuable insights and resources. As a speaker and contributor to various publications, Steve remains dedicated to staying at the forefront of workplace innovation, helping organizations thrive in today's dynamic work environment.

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