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Hybrid workplace: current status, positives, negatives, challenges, and team learning

Hybrid workplace: current status, positives, negatives, challenges, and team learning This study aims to find out if organizations are still practicing a hybrid workplace arrangement after COVID-19 ease of restrictions, determine the positive and negative sides of a hybrid workplace, ascertain the challenges organizations are currently facing in implementing a hybrid workplace and examine how successful team learning has been in hybrid workplaces.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a mixed approach. Two sets of data (quantitative and qualitative) were used to answer the research questions.FindingsThis study found that most organizations within professional service firms are still implementing hybrid workplaces even though COVID-19 restrictions have been eased. This study also found that one of the advantages of implementing a hybrid work arrangement includes employees’ opportunity to spend more time with their families. On the other hand, the disadvantages discovered were gradual loss of corporate identity, a feeling of loneliness and others. One of the challenges organizations are facing in implementing this working system is the lack of an ergonomic workplace and appropriate technology for remote working. With evidence, this study ends with finding out that companies are not successful as expected in terms of team learning in a hybrid workplace.Originality/valueTo the best of the author’s knowledge, this is among the first to look at hybrid workplace in the African setting where COVID restrictions which highlights the practice has not really been an issue. This study also combines its findings with those done on the subject before to firmly clarify attributes as they exist. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Learning Organization Emerald Publishing

Hybrid workplace: current status, positives, negatives, challenges, and team learning

Oppong Peprah, Emmanuel
The Learning Organization , Volume 31 (1): 16 – Feb 13, 2024
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Emerald Publishing
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© Emerald Publishing Limited
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0969-6474
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0969-6474
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10.1108/tlo-11-2022-0150
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This study aims to find out if organizations are still practicing a hybrid workplace arrangement after COVID-19 ease of restrictions, determine the positive and negative sides of a hybrid workplace, ascertain the challenges organizations are currently facing in implementing a hybrid workplace and examine how successful team learning has been in hybrid workplaces.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a mixed approach. Two sets of data (quantitative and qualitative) were used to answer the research questions.FindingsThis study found that most organizations within professional service firms are still implementing hybrid workplaces even though COVID-19 restrictions have been eased. This study also found that one of the advantages of implementing a hybrid work arrangement includes employees’ opportunity to spend more time with their families. On the other hand, the disadvantages discovered were gradual loss of corporate identity, a feeling of loneliness and others. One of the challenges organizations are facing in implementing this working system is the lack of an ergonomic workplace and appropriate technology for remote working. With evidence, this study ends with finding out that companies are not successful as expected in terms of team learning in a hybrid workplace.Originality/valueTo the best of the author’s knowledge, this is among the first to look at hybrid workplace in the African setting where COVID restrictions which highlights the practice has not really been an issue. This study also combines its findings with those done on the subject before to firmly clarify attributes as they exist.

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The Learning Organization – Emerald Publishing

Published: Feb 13, 2024

Keywords: Hybrid workplace; Pandemic; COVID; Remote working; Teleworking; Virtual working; Flexibility

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