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Amid pandemic, workers consider health as their topmost priority

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After struggling over two years of COVID-19 pandemic, most Filipino workers consider health as their top priority.

This was indicated in Microsoft Corp.’s recently released second annual Work Trend Index entitled “Great Expectation: Making Hybrid Work.”

The survey covered 31,000 people in 31 countries, including the Philippines, along with an analysis of trillions of productivity signals in Microsoft 365 and labor trends on LinkedIn.

“There’s no erasing the lived experience and lasting impact of the past two years, as flexibility and well-being have become non-negotiable for employees,” said Modern Work for Microsoft corporate vice president Jared Spataro.

In the 2022 Work Trend Index, employees have a new “worth it” equation wherein 67 percent of employees in the Philippines said they’re more likely to prioritize their health and wellbeing over work than before the pandemic. 

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The report highlighted that the “Great Reset” had about 46 percent of Gen Z and Millennials in the Philippines considering to changing employers in the year ahead.

Meanwhile, surveyed managers felt they are wedged between leadership and employee expectations. Majority or about 69 percent of work leaders in the Philippines said their company was planning a return to full-time in-person work in the year ahead, compared to 50 percent globally.

Nearly half or 46 percent of managers in the Philippines said leadership at their company was out of touch with employee expectations and 81 percent of managers in the Philippines said they don’t have the influence or resources to drive change for their team.   

The study also revealed that many office leaders needed to make the office worth the commute with 48 percent of hybrid employees in the Philippines saying their biggest challenge was knowing when and why to come to the office. 

Given these sentiments, only 38 percent of leaders have created team agreements to define these new norms.    

With growing popularity using digital tools for work, 66 percent of workers in the Philippines are open to using immersive digital spaces for meetings in the next year, compared to 52 percent globally.   

In addition, about 60 percent of hybrid workers in the Philippines are expecting a shift to full-remote in the year ahead since companies admitted they cannot rely solely on the office to recoup the social capital they’ve lost over the past two years. 

However, 43 percent of leaders in the Philippines hinted that relationship-building is the greatest challenge of having employees work hybrid or remote.    

“By embracing and adapting to these new expectations, organizations can set their people and their business up for long-term success,” Spataro said.

As the company marks five years since the launch of Teams, it revealed that more than 270 million people have learned to rely on Teams for hybrid work. 

Spataro noted that making hybrid work work for everyone would require intentional leadership around how, when and where to work with technology at the center of it.

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