Now that economic uncertainty has followed the pandemic, what lies in the months ahead? Mike Morini, CEO at WorkForce Software, sits down with Forbes to discuss the future of work and how modern workforce management technology can provide an essential bridge and needed benefit for both employers and their vital workforces, even if these essential employees don’t sit behind a desk.
Morini points to how the much-discussed younger generations of employees’ expectations of work and of their employers demand that executives adapt to take notice of workers’ conflicting demands on their time. Even with the economic outlook worsening, he maintains that companies will still be determined to keep their best people and therefore will need to be proactive in ensuring they are engaged.
One of the ways that software like that offered by his company can help is by alerting line managers to their subordinates’ workloads. The advantage of this is that it also provides an opportunity for the manager to generally check up on the employee and provide the feedback and appreciation that is seen as so vital today.
But Morini also stresses that it is not only executives who are having to adapt to new approaches in the wake of what he calls the rapid escalation in digitalization in the wake of the pandemic. Employees at all levels will have to take more responsibility for themselves when working from home. “You have to have self-starters,” he says.