Is Work Ethics still relevant these days when we Work-from-Home?
Yesirrrrr, very much, that's loud and clear. Although most of us are nested in our respective homes throughout this pandemic, this is NOT the time to throw out on the window the essence of work ethics.
On the other hand, this becomes the talking point these as we gradually embrace what the new normal is. In juxtaposition to this new normal comes this reciprocity for us workers to hold up high the values of work ethics.
Much as I wanted to share some thoughts with regard my company, at hindsight I realized I should not because I might be misconstrued as promoting the name of my company. Instead, I'd like to briefly talk about SIEMENS, that major German multinational conglomerate. Days back, they hit the business banner headlines when management advised its 140,000-strong employees that working from home will be their choice, their option, even after this pandemic brouhaha is finally over. For Siemens management, they coaxed their message so sharp and sound hitting the nail by its head when their management underscored that what matters these days is the outcomes, the results and not the hours logged at work.
Exactly, that's the key challenge. As we wake up each day, with the discretion and flexibility to manage your time and reconciling it with your work tasks and deliverables, it becomes a judgment call. And that's when one is walking a fine line between a right decision versus a wrong decision.
But if sometimes you get lost and confused, ending with blurred indecisions, all it takes is to DO WHAT IS RIGHT, NOT WHAT IS EASY. Else, taking the easy path may compromise the quality of work expected of us.
It is during this unprecedented pandemic when things can go so awry and awful versus something that is so sterling and astounding. High flyers at work may further zoom up whereas the laggards may further be waylaid and left out in the doldrums and dustbins. This is when we will witness all over again Moses parting the Red Sea.
For us to keep ourselves afloat, for us to maintain the quality of work, it behooves upon us not to leave a single stone unturned regardless if we are just on our pajamas but doggedly working as if there is no tomorrow.
