In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, under the advice of the
Government, many employers were forced to allow staff to work from
home, significantly reducing the number of employees working from
the office.
Across ISOLAS LLP and Fiduciary Management Ltd, we rapidly moved
from a predominantly officeworking environment, to having 70% of
staff within ISOLAS and 50% within Fiduciary working from home. As
restrictions are now being lifted in Gibraltar, and our employees
begin a phased return to the workplace, it is an opportunity for HR
practitioners to consider what impact working from home has had on
staff and wider business initiatives.
As a HR professional, providing internal support as well as
offering an outsourced HR service through Fiduciary HR Solutions, I
am interested in exploring this topic further. Most recently, my
aim was to determine to what extent sickness levels had been
affected by a change in working environment. As 50 to 70% of our
staff were
