A couple of years ago the acronym WFH (work from home) was a scarcely spoken phrase. Today, it has proliferated to its common place status. At Discova, we strongly believe that the modern working era needs ‘WFH’ to retain that status to ensure employee happiness and business agility. For us, the key to engraining workplace flexibility is employee trust and evaluating people on their achieved outcomes rather than presenteeism.
In 2022, we began implementing a new flexible working policy that accommodated not only the shifting work environment caused by the pandemic, but the overall global drive towards a more adaptable, workplace balance. At present, we have some staff who work fully remotely, and others who benefit from the choice of working from home during select days of the week. Our flexible working policy states that team members, unless otherwise agreed upon, should spend minimum 60% of normal hours in their working location (3-5 days per week), and team leaders minimum 80-100% of normal hours in their work location (4-5 days per week). Outside of that, they can work from home (or in a café, beachside restaurant, gym, etc.) as they see fit. We spoke to our Human Resources (Peopleworks) team and staff to find out what this policy has achieved.
