Firms try to lure workers back into offices Fridays amid low turnout

1. Firms try to lure workers back into offices Fridays amid low turnout https://hadielectronics.com.pk/firms-try-to-lure-workers-back-into-offices-fridays-amid-low-turnout/ Less than a quarter of US white collar workers attend work on Fridays, a study has revealed as companies come up with extravagant perks to attract them back. The data, compiled by New York property management company Kastle Systems, show the continued popularity of the hybrid model even after the pandemic period, and particularly toward the close of the workweek. Only 30 percent of employees show up on Fridays, as per the swipe-card data.Tuesday as well as Wednesdays are among the most busy times during the work week in offices with half of employees coming in on both days. On Mondays, only 41 percent will attend On Thursdays, 46 per cent of the workforce arrive at work - even although the COVID epidemic began around two and a half years ago. This has made employers in a bind on what to do to fill the seats as turnout decreases. Many notable companies now employing companies such as restaurants and even wine trucks in order to motivate employees to quit working at home. Online Optimism, a business firm that has office locations across New Orleans, Washington DC and Georgia is hosting the happy hour from 4pm to 5pm every Friday for employees who visit. Only one restriction is employees cannot take shots of alcohol. Online Optimism which does not have any rules for office work, says that as high as the 80 percent employees are on the premises on days that offer food available for free. The most social gatherings happen on Fridays the day after a Friday dinner, the Chief Executive Officer Flynn Zaiger told the Post.'Why not enjoy a drink or two? If people are likely to be less productive on a particular day of the week I'd rather have it on Friday, rather than Monday.' A mere quarter of US white collar workers are in the office each Friday morning, a recent research has revealed. And several companies are reacting by introducing an array of extravagant perks to entice back the sluggish employees. Other fringe benefits that have been reported include costume contests, karaoke and sing-offs, all with one aim to get workers off their couches and back at their desks. But, based on the figures that were compiled by Kastle which offers security for 2600 buildings across the US it could be a difficult task. A lot of employers have welcomed the new working environment and have seen high- profile firms like New York-based CitiGroup proclaiming Fridays as Zoom-free days, and accounting giant KPMG has a similar no-camera Fridays policies.

2. The company, with its headquarters within the Big Apple, also lets employees work on the weekend at 3pm in the summer - something that's becoming more and more popular, experts in human resources claim. Many believe that the current trend is and will not be going away. "It's becoming more of a common sense and is becoming a part of the norm,' Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, told the Washington Post Friday of the recent trend toward remote work. "You're sure that nobody else is working on Friday, so perhaps you'll work at home too,' Cappelli added. In the meantime, some businesses have begun to eliminate Fridays completely, through crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and online consignment retailer ThredUp located on New York and the Bay Area and the Bay Area, respectively, joining an increasing number of businesses switching to a four-day working week that runs from Monday to Thursday. Executives from Bolt, a company in the field of technology located in San Francisco that seeks to simplify the checkout process for customers when they shop online have been testing no-work Fridays during the summer. In the course of this year's fiscal year, the company was forced cut one-third of its 1,000 employees following a slump in profits. Bolt continues with the work week of four days experiment, regardless of the outcome. Some companies are testing office happy hours in order to lure employees back to the workplace on a Friday. Prior to the outbreak was discovered, people saw Friday as a blowoff day in the past,' Cappelli told The Post.'And nowadays, there's a growing expectation that you can work from home in order to get your weekend off to a good start.' Some companies, however, haven't been so keen to adopt the hybrid work environment and are now pondering ways to attract remote workers into the fold and continue to pay huge cost for office space and - in many instances reduced productivity. These firms, which have offices in cities around the globe, including New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Washington, DC - have chosen to implement policies like early happy hours or catered events even food trucks paid for by companies to combat the declining participation on Fridays. Julie Schweber, an adviser at the Society of Human Resource Management She says the reasoning behind the policy is straightforward"If you give them food then they will arrive.'

3. She said to The Post Friday: grenada Employers are aware that it's more difficult to persuade people to return and are asking "What can we do?"' "The simple answer is when you give them food, they'll come.Food trucks and special events catered by a caterer, Ice cream socials, that's the latest trend.' And it's very popular. Some have even fashioned food trucks and an HR expert saying, 'If you give them food and they come, they will follow'