These goals have become a common language and strategic framework for global sustainable development and for running a business. 

In Taiwan, lots of businesses have implemented hybrid work that is compatible with hybrid work and remote work. This hybrid working style allows Taiwanese employees to balance work and life while reducing work and financial stress. 

What is Sustainable Development? 

Sustainable development focuses not only on climate change and environmental pollution but also on improving the health and well-being of employees, providing quality jobs, and promoting economic growth. 

Developing an effective sustainability strategy can help you save on operating expenses and develop your business. Meanwhile, you can build a positive image for your business and attract global talent to join by achieving sustainability goals. 

What is hybrid working? 

Hybrid work is a people-oriented approach to work, which aims to make employees work happier and increase their productivity. It is also a flexible way of working, allowing employees to choose when to work remotely and when to work in the office. 

Benefits for the individuals

As hybrid work is a people-oriented way of working, therefore, when companies implement blending, it not only helps business operations but also provides flexibility, improves well-being, and reduces daily expenses for employees. 

Hybrid work gives workers more freedom and autonomy, which means they can choose where and how they work. Compared to the traditional way in which employees are forced to return to the office, hybrid work gives employees control over their workflow, making work more enjoyable and relaxing. 

Enhanced well-being 

Traditional ways of working often require employees to work overtime due to a lack of productivity. For example, working long hours reduces their break time, which can lead to a lack of energy at work and a decrease in their ability to work. 

When employees have a personalized work schedule, they can schedule more breaks for themselves to ensure that their performance is not affected.

With increased productivity, employees are able to finish their jobs during work hours and then have more time to spend with their families or friends. This gives employees a work-life balance and makes them healthier both physically and mentally. 

Reducing daily expenses 

As global prices rise, employees are eager to increase their income to meet their daily expenses, including the desire to receive an allowance for commuting or meals. However, employees did not receive many benefits in the old-fashioned workplace, usually only health insurance and no free meals. 

In fact, Cisco Taiwan reports that over 80% of respondents said that hybrid work has helped them reduce their daily expenses in the past year. For example, 86.7% said they saved money on commuting and 73.2% said they saved money on meals and parties.

This is because employees typically work from home, which means they don’t have to buy take-out. And they avoid attending frequent parties because they spend less time with co-workers. 

Benefits for Organization

When an organization uses hybrid work, the two biggest benefits are to reduce expenses and increase its competitive advantage. 

Lower rents

In a hybrid office, employees use shared office resources, such as hot desks. Therefore, companies can save a lot of money by reducing the number of fixed desks and the size of their offices. 

Especially in the Taipei area, where rents are more expensive. Therefore, companies are well suited to adopt hybrid work to reduce operating expenses. 

Improve employee retention 

A flexible workplace is important for Taiwanese employees. Assuming some companies want to move to more remote areas, employees will be less likely to leave because hybrid work gives them the option to return to the office at any time. 

According to a report about hybrid working in Taiwan, 62% of Taiwan employees believe that their ability to work anywhere affects whether they stay in their job or leave. 

In addition, hybrid work increases their work satisfaction and enables them to have a life-work balance. Therefore, two potential benefits of adopting hybrid work are increased retention and a greater ability to attract top talent. 

Improve employee productivity 

According to a report by Cisco Taiwan, 79% of respondents said that hybrid work has improved their overall happiness. Hybrid work makes Taiwanese workers happy, which leads to increased engagement with the company and provides higher productivity. 

In addition, some studies have shown that if Taiwanese employees can work remotely, they will remain happy and will deliver productive performance, making the organization more competitive. 

Optimize management and reduce workload 

Hybrid office digitalizes management. Using an office management system helps companies easier to manage office resources. In addition, an office management system helps to avoid hiring additional staff to manage office resources and helps reduce the company’s operating costs. 

For example, administrators can use a room management system to manage all rooms, which means they do not need to spend time managing rooms. This helps them to save time in managing the rooms, thus allowing them to focus on their work. 

Benefits for society 

While most people may only focus on the benefits of hybrid work for individuals and businesses, the truth is that the benefits of hybrid work go beyond that and can be beneficial to society. 

Improve employment   

Most companies lay off employees because of cost savings. Since hybrid work helps organizations save on operating expenses, they can reduce the times of layoffs and prevent employment rates from declining. 

Furthermore, Taiwanese workers value flexibility. Therefore, when vacancies arise, hybrid jobs may be filled more quickly than positions in traditional offices. This could mean that employment will continue to rise in countries where hybrid work is widely used. 

A healthier society 

Hybrid work reduces worker stress and leads to improved worker well-being. Flexible work arrangements keep employees out of overcrowded workplaces and reduce the chance of illness.

When most companies implement hybrid work, workers in Taiwan can have a healthier society. 

Improve environmental protection 

Since hybrid work eliminates the need for employees to return to the office every day, pollution associated with commuting (cars/motorcycles, etc.) may also be reduced. 

As more and more companies in Taiwan join hybrid work, energy consumption in the office will also be reduced. This will help reduce carbon emissions and light pollution.

Conclusion 

In summary, sustainable development is a solution that focuses on protecting the environment and the well-being of people. And hybrid work is a way of working that puts people at the center and helps to protect the environment. 

Therefore, hybrid work is a sustainable way of working because it is very similar to the principles of sustainable development. If hybrid work continues to be implemented in Taiwan, this will certainly have a positive impact on individuals, companies, and even society. 

Based on the principles of sustainable development, we believe that hybrid work is the future work model in Taiwan. If you are a business leader in Taiwan, you should not put off joining the hybrid work bandwagon any longer. 

What setup supports your hybrid office? 

A hybrid office should use a functional office management system, which helps the employees in Taiwan use office resources efficiently, such as rooms, desks, and office equipment, and support them to have remote work and virtual meetings with their colleagues in the office.        

ONES is one of the famous all-in-one smart office systems that can help you to easily implement hybrid working at ease.  You can easily perform virtual meetings, desk hoteling, and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management features.    

Feel free to contact us for more detail to implement your hybrid office! 

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/.    

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Although working from home has certain benefits, there are many difficulties in implementation. Let’s review the benefits and challenges of WFH. 

Taiwan WFH Survey reveals why people prefer WFH

In Taiwan, 104 Data invited 2,755 Taiwanese employees and 2,637 Taiwanese employers to share their thoughts on new ways of working. Among them, 37.7% of employees are or have been WFH, and 58.1% of entrepreneurs provide WFH.  

Benefits of WFH in Taiwan

Based on the report, 66.1% of employees think WFH can make their time more flexible. 64.8% prefer WFH because they can sleep more without commuting. 56.5% think WFH can help them save money, such as dressing and make-up costs, meals out, transportation costs, etc.  

On the other hand, 45.6% of employers believe that adopting WFH will help them save money by eliminating the need for employees to return to the office, e.g., office rent and utilities. 41.8% feel WFH helps to enhance employee self-management; 29.8% think WFH can increase employee satisfaction and help retain and recruit talent. 

More importantly, both companies (82%) and employees (70%) believe that WFH improves people’s life-work balance. 

Challenge of WFH implementation 

Even though WFH has lots of benefits for employees and employers in Taiwan, the report shows that people still do not think it is the best solution for future work.

Misconceptions about WFH 

WFH is not an employee benefit, it is one of the measures to improve work efficiency. There are still 14% of companies and 27% of workers who misunderstand WFH as a part of employee benefits. 

In fact, WFH is used to meet the needs of employees and enhance their job satisfaction. It is more important to give employees flexibility in their work than just to give employees WFH. 

WFH is not a no-cost work approach 

Many companies think that WFH means they don’t need to rent offices or pay work allowances to employees. 

In fact, you may still have some equipment that needs to be in the office. It’s wiser to evaluate office usage and space ratios before deciding whether to continue renting office space. 

In addition, employees need good network support to have a good WFH experience, so employers still need to pay their network allowance. 

Not suitable for all enterprises 

As mentioned above, some jobs are not suitable for WFH, so you need to consider whether the job area can meet the WFH requirements.

Otherwise, it will be ineffective and a waste of time and resources to force the implementation. 

Requires self-disciplined and self-motivated staff 

The quality of employees is an important factor in the implementation of WFH. If your employees are passive at work, there is no way to ensure that they are as productive in WFH as they are in the office. 

In addition, new employees are not suitable for WFH because they do not yet have a clear understanding of the company’s working standards. Therefore, there is no guarantee that they will know how to work on their own initiative. 

Hybrid working is more suitable for Taiwanese than WFH

In summary, the 104 report shows that working from home has certain benefits, but there are many difficulties in implementation.

On the other hand, the report points out that employees and employers prefer hybrid working in Taiwan now.  

The employees (65%) and the employers (29%) in Taiwan said that they changed their minds and supported hybrid work with “3 days in + 2 days of WHF” as the best solution. 

What is hybrid working? 

Hybrid work is an approach that combines work at home and work in the office and takes into account the needs of the individual. 

It provides sufficient flexibility in work, including customized flexible working hours, workplace, and workflow by employees themselves, and allows them to work in the public workspace in the office.    

As a result, employees are able to enjoy a personalized work schedule and combine it with a co-working style within the company to create an organized and efficient work model. 

What setup can support a hybrid office?  

A hybrid office should use a functional office management system, which helps Singapore employees use office resources efficiently, such as rooms, desks, and office equipment, and support them to have remote work and virtual meetings with their colleagues in the office.       

ONES is one of the famous all-in-one smart office systems that can help you to easily implement hybrid working at ease which can easily help you to perform virtual meetings, desk hoteling, and digital office management with our Room Booking, Desk Booking, and Visitor Management feature.     

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONES Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/.    

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A Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) (房間管理系統) can help you to adopt a hybrid working style. Some studies have shown a 73% increase in the need for meeting rooms in hybrid office spaces.

Meeting rooms in flexible workspaces provide the ideal in-between office space, providing a solution that is both professional and casual enough to be used on an as-needed basis.

ONES – All-in-one smart office system

ONES offers functionality for bookings of a meeting room with office equipment and services and provides a 3D floorplan for a clear view of availability and reservations. We work with Microsoft Outlook for ease of room booking.  

The features of ONES: 

1. Centralized and user-friendly platform: Providing an informative schedule calendar and an interactive 3D floor map, also suitable for mobile and desktop.   

2. Multi-channel for booking: Booking on mobile apps, web browsers, room display, floor display, kiosk, Microsoft Outlook, and Teams;  

3. Customizable policy: Provides room setting (capacity, amenity, location, service etc.) and the quota setting. Allow users to set the advanced permission to allow specific staff to use rooms;  

4. Centralized management: Managing from a room to multiple buildings on the same platform;  

5. No-show Auto-Release function (自動釋出房間功能): Automatically keep your rooms from being empty when the meeting is a “ghost meeting”;  

6. Customizable room service (自訂服務): Support your request for special room service before the meeting and notify related staff for the service support. 

Booking a room is now an enjoyable experience with our meeting room booking system. Moreover, we provide a visitor management system (訪客管理系統) and hot-desk booking service (辦公桌預約功能), ensuring your office easily adapts to a hybrid working style. 

ONELAN 

ONELAN uses Reserva system to improve workspace utilization and ROI. The features of ONELAN: 

1. Alert notification: notify managers of the status of equipment in the meeting room; 

2. Auto-Release Room: notification of meeting room usage time and automatic cancellation if late (instant booking for others);  

3. Room Display: Show all details and three colors show the room condition; 
    

ATEN 

ATEN RBS seamlessly integrates with leading calendar systems such as Microsoft 365 to automatically sync appointment information from the device to the mail server.  The features of ATEN: 

1. A customizable interactive interface: Customizable background, exclusive corporate logo, fashionable appearance, etc;  

2. Room Panel: Quick searching suitable rooms and show the details of rooms;  

3. Centralized management: Manage multiple meeting rooms, even across branch offices and overseas offices;  

4. Supported service: Software update service and support different kinds of language. 

ATEN also offers a variety of charging docking stations for your office. 

Ragic 
 

Ragic system can intergrade the data and help your company to build up a database. The features of Ragic:  

1. Free templates: Lots of management templates for you to download if you use them;  
2. Latest statistical technology: They have a unique way to build a database of rooms; 
3. Easy-to-use interface: Show the details clearly, ensure you are easy to view for management; 
4. Alert notification: notify managers or the staff about the latest changes in rooms. 

Ragic manages rooms with a proprietary Room Booking Management system. 
 

IMage UCMS 

 
IMage Room Booking Management System provides a full range of management mechanisms, making users feel like they have a full-time management assistant. The features of IMage: 

1. Easy management: Help you to arrange meetings, send meeting notices, connect to video conferences and sign up for meetings; 
2. Face Recognition: Protecting the use of the room from being used by others; 
3. Authority: Setting the advanced permission to allow specific staff to use rooms; 
4. Meeting Room List: Show the available rooms by room display.  

IMage UCMS focuses on room management and security. 

ONES Software now has a dedicated page to introduce a series of smart office measures to help you solve problems. You may wish to go to A Complete Guide for Room Booking System Now – ONES Blog for further reference. 

Contact us: hello@ones.software, or visit ONEs Software official website for more information: https://ones.software/. 

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