Cisco survey: Hong Kong employees think mixed work to make them happier and better performance, but still need to strengthen mixed work inclusive

Cisco survey: Hong Kong employees think mixed work to make them happier and better performance,

But still need to strengthen mixed work inclusive

News summary

• 82% of Hong Kong employees polled said without being limited by the location to work to make them happier.
• Nearly half of the employees work (49%) think that mixed make their productivity improved.
• 83% of employees said that occupy the home office to save money, save about hk $58400 ($7488) per year on average.
• Sixty percent of employees expect work quality improved.
• Only one 6 employees think of their enterprises sufficient preparation work for mixing.

Cisco's newThe cisco 2022 global mixed work"Found that the mixed work helps to improve the physical and mental health of employees from all over the world, work life balance, and job performance.Although companies can benefit from higher productivity of employees, but still need more efforts to build inclusive of culture, and fully integrated into the mix work mode, in order to improve the degree of new patterns of work preparation, and rich experience staff.

Survey shows that under the mixed work, sixty percent of Hong Kong employees believe their work quality has improved.Nearly half (49%) of employees believe their productivity improved.However,只有六分之一（16%）員工認為他們的企業為混合工作未來做足準備。

Mixing work to improve the staff all aspects of health

Cisco survey to assess the effect of mixed work of five health category - emotional, financial, spiritual, physical, and social well-being - more than three-quarters of Hong Kong respondents (78%) said mixing and a distance office successfully improve their various aspects of health.

81% away from the office to improve the employee's work life balance in Hong Kong, of cause including more flexible office arrangement (62%) and sharply reduce or completely save transportation time (47%).Two-thirds of employees (66%) in the home office can save at least four hours every week, almost a quarter (24%) of respondents can save eight hours or more a week.

Mix and a distance office also raised the social well-being, the vast majority of respondents (72%) said a distance office to improve the family relationship, half (50%) of respondents said closer relationship with friends.

During survey, due to the distance of office can save money, more than eighty percent (83%) of the Hong Kong people think that their financial situation improved.The average weekly to save the cost of slightly higher than the hk $1100 ($144), one year is about 58400 Hong Kong dollars ($7488).The same proportion of respondents will be food and entertainment (81%) and traffic (81%) as their save most areas.Reduced spending will help retain talent, 64% of respondents said they are considering changing jobs, to save costs into account.

In addition, nearly two-thirds (64%) of Hong Kong respondents said their condition along with the distance office is improved.Seventy percent (73%) of people at a distance office more exercise.Has similar proportion in eating habits, 76% of respondents said mixed work has a positive effect on their eating habits.

Due to physical and mental health to improve all aspects, the vast majority (82%) of Hong Kong employees can work everywhere to make them happier.Nearly half (45%) said employees, mixed work helps to reduce their stress levels.About a quarter (24%) of employees think the mixing work patterns more easily, work environment pressure is smaller, while 33% staff mix reduced stress due to work schedule provided a higher flexibility.

Enterprise strategy and reflection, preparing mixed work in the future to do better

Cisco greater China region vice President and general manager of Hong Kong and macau ZhuangQuanSheng said: "the success of mixed work implementation involves the flexibility, and whether the enterprise is willing to listen to employees' desired way of working. Mixed work it is obvious that the benefits of our survey shows that 81% of respondents hope in the future using a combination of distance and works in an office working mode. The operation mode of the enterprise need to be aware of the future is mixed, and this is the key to retaining talent, therefore the enterprise needs to do many preparations so as to adapt to this kind of work in the previous model. Business leaders need to recognize the mixed mode has become irreversible trend, so they in science, technology and professional strategies must be deeper and more consistent investment, so that the team can work in any place, to help enterprises in the future, the mixture of new work environment all."

Different ways of working can affect enterprise tolerance and employee engagement uncertainty.More than half the respondents said Hong Kong, with line and office work and working distance than those who take a completely away from work team members, and colleagues (56%) and company (53%) of the communication challenges.In addition, the survey also found that trust is a key factor in enterprise management -- 59% of respondents thought their leadership to trust them at a distance work to maintain results.Similarly, 54% of respondents think they will be able to trust a distance work colleague.

These findings emphasize under mixed work, the public need to enterprise owns inclusive culture.66% of Hong Kong respondents said their companies need to rethink its culture and way of thinking, make the mixed work really has the tolerance.

At the same time, the technology will remain a future increasingly diversified and dispersed the key of the work team.Nearly sixty percent of respondents (59%) of the Hong Kong connection problems often affect and limit the distance workers work.Therefore, 84% of respondents said the network infrastructure is vital for home office experience seamlessly, but only 64% of respondents said they company is equipped with the appropriate network infrastructure.

Nearly three-quarters (71%) of respondents believe that network security is crucial to the security of mixed work, but fewer than two thirds (62%) of respondents said their companies are now having the right ability, and guidance.Only 64% of the respondents thought the company's work on all employees understand the hybrid network risk, while 63% of respondents think business leaders are familiar with these risks.

Cisco Asia Pacific, Japan and senior director of greater China talent and communitiesAnupam TrehannSaid: "undoubtedly, mixed work will continue to exist,And for good reason,Because employees and enterprises from all aspects to feel the actual benefits,Include improving the overall employee well-being, and productivity and performance.However,To make full use of the opportunities brought by the mixed work in the future, companies need to do more work,Especially to create an inclusive culture, provide channels allow employees to participate in work,Deployment of technology infrastructure, etc., you can make the enterprise and employees,Fully prepared to mixed mode."