Employee engagement is a big challenge for companies around the globe. In fact, in the present situations, it has become even more worrisome for the employers to guarantee employee engagement, with its employees sitting in their own comfortable spaces of the home. However, it is an unquestionable fact that hundred per cent engagement in work throughout the day is simply unattainable in the present pandemic condition. Although not every single person in the world has got directly impacted by the coronavirus, indirectly, this COVID 19 has certainly affected every single human being of the world. This is the reason that employees across the globe have been forced to work from home, which is posing a threat to the culture of high employee engagement at many organisations. 

This piece of the blog talks about the problems that the companies are facing at present with relation to management and how they can assure consistency of high-quality work from its employees, sitting in the cozy environment of the home. Thus, the following are a few steps, which can certify the very fulfilment of devotion and concentration from work from home employees of an organisation:

Trust the thrust: The first and the foremost thing that employers need to exhibit perfectly is the investment of high confidence in their employees. If a company is able to establish a platform which is based on high trust, then it can ascertain the flow of positivity in its every working environment. It does not actually matter if the employee is working from home or sitting in the office space if he is a fully engaged employee, he is sure to work in accordance to the will of his employer. In addition to this, an employee who enjoys the trust and confidence of his employer takes the work as his personal responsibility and makes sure that every part of the work is delivered with finesse. Therefore, in order to yield high benefits from all its employees, a company also needs to bestow its valuable trust in each and every employee.

Give them the power to autorotate themselves: This is assuredly a very powerful method to gain the dedication of the employees. With this practice, an employer can allow its employees to decide their course of work for the day and command themselves to ensure the completion of the tasks in hand. It is by reversing the tables of responsibility that the employees get more vigilant towards their own task accomplishment and even makes sure the perfect compliance of all necessary elements in the work assigned. Additionally, when the employees become self- dependent, they get to realise their strengths even more descriptively and instil more unidirectional approach in the achievement of the daily targets.

Work on daily/ weekly targets: Moving further, this is surely the need of every type of organisation, especially today when the whole world is operating from home. It is, therefore, a prerequisite today. for every working sector to provide a target to its employees. These targets can range from a day to a week, depending on the nature of work, the respective industry is dealing into. Thus, with these definite targets, it gets easy for the employer also to manage and evaluate the progress of work done by its employees.

Empower them with the tool of flexibility: Adding on, the implication of targets can only be successful while working from home if it gets complimented with the very tool of flexibility. It is a well-known fact that the environment of the home contains a lot of elements of distraction. It is because of the presence of such factors, that an employee is not able to devote the fixed office hours to his daily tasks while working from home. Thus, by allowing the employee to work with flexible working hours, the employer actually ensures the perfect delivery of work for those hours. It is further possible due to the reason that an employee is bound to show maximum dedication during the working hours he fixes up for himself. Here again, the strategy of self- command and control works in its best spirits.

Make them feel valued: Last but not the least, being distanced for long from the formal and cooperative environment of the office, an employee does start to feel disconnected. Thus, it is very important for management to stay in touch with its employees. This should not only be done via mails, but the medium of internal chatting platforms can be best utilised to have a quick word of appreciation with the employees. Also, the HR team can make calls to the employees at different intervals and seek their well being. In fact, if a person feels protected and safeguarded in such tough times, he not only feels secure in terms of his job but a feeling of self-pride also emerges in him, for being associated with a genuinely great-hearted group of people. 

Thus, by following the very small but highly effective methods of ensuring employee engagement, a company can assure high consistency of fruitful work from its employees, even during the testing times of worldwide lockdown.