Coronavirus Created Development Opportunity for Companies!

Coronavirus created development opportunity for companies! According to a new analysis, companies prepared for coronavirus perceive this process as development and see this as an opportunity to prepare the company for the future.

Deloitte published the 2021 Global Human Resources Trends Report. The research, covering a total of 99 countries, including Turkey, revealed important problems in dealing with the challenges posed by the coronavirus. "How can companies position themselves for improvement?" As a result of the research carried out based on this question, it was revealed that companies prepared for the coronavirus pandemic have a development perspective. Within the scope of the report, it was observed that 15 percent of the managers, who defined their companies as "very prepared" for the epidemic, redirected their investments 2.2 times more than the changing demands and other companies. “Very prepared” managers use technology 2 times more than others to transform business. Again, these managers are 2 times more aware of the importance of designing the job in facilitating rapid decision-making, and use employee adaptation and mobility to manage future disruptions almost 3 times more. Deloitte Human Management Services Leader, Cem Sezgin, said in a statement about the report that the steps that started before the epidemic against the "Future of Work" both in the world and in Turkey are now handled by companies with a much more strategic and holistic perspective, he also stated that while putting the human element at the center, they are taking firm steps on a path where they do not neglect to make the most of the opportunities offered by alternative workforce and technology. The managers participating in the research think that their experience in the coronavirus process opens a new door to human resources in order to create a differentiated value for work and workforce. Sezgin argues that the next process should be to focus on rebuilding the business.   The 5 prominent workforce trends in the 2021 Global Human Resources Trends report are as follows: "(1) Re-design of work in the focus of fitness; intertwined work and private life. Trend: Companies should design fitness by integrating it into work and private life, thereby moving wellness beyond work/private life balance. Improvement: Designing the job with the idea of ​​integrating wellness into the work.   (2) Beyond re-developing competencies; revealing the employee potential. Trend: Companies need a workforce development approach that takes into account both the dynamic nature of the business and the dynamic potential of employees to reinvent themselves. Improvement: pushing training from the top down, assuming the best companies know the skills that their employees need. Providing employees with the opportunity to choose what to do so that they can unleash their potential by allowing them to integrate their aspirations and passions with organizational needs. (3) Super teams: where the work is done. Trend: Companies have seen that 'teams' are more important than they think in order to be successful in constant disruption with Covid-19. Improvement: Using technology for teams to work more effectively and efficiently. Creation of super teams that integrate technology and people, and the complementary skills of these teams to rebuild the business with a more human approach and methods. (4) Managing workforce strategies: Identifying new directions for the work and the workforce. Trend: Companies need forward-looking insights that can help them take quick action and set new directions in the face of workforce uncertainty. Improvement: Use of metrics and metrics that describe the current state of the workforce. Accessing and acting on real-time workforce insights that can support better and faster decisions based on an understanding of what the workforce is capable of in the future. " (5) Note to HR professionals: Accelerating the transition to rebuilding the business. Improvement: Having an organizational mindset that focuses on optimizing and redesigning HR processes to manage the workforce. Adopting a corporate mindset that prioritizes business rebuilding to harness unmatched human power. "