Eric Mochnacz provided his thoughts to Business.com on virtual offices and what companies need to consider when developing a return to office policy.
An employee may feel comfortable reporting to work from their virtual work-from-home situation if they have a sniffle, whereas in the ‘old’ model — they would potentially use a sick day — or would report to the office and potentially expose other employees to their illness.
A commercial roofing contractor was in hyper growth mode. They had goals to increase their field workforce to expand their service area to additional states and geographical locations. If they were to grow their field workforce, they would also need to increase their administrative, operational and sales headcount to support the additional workload created by increased field work. Additionally, they were challenged in workforce retention and development, experiencing high turnover, and did not have a dedicated Human Resources professional to manage employee relations and compliance issues that come with trying to scale a business.
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