Dell Technologies has released report numbers regarding the Remote Work Readiness (RWR) Index that is used to find out the relevant rating of how employees are ready for remote work in a long-term basis.
Responded by more than 7,000 professionals from Asia Pacific and Japan region (1,030 from Malaysia), around 84% of Malaysians feel that they are ready for extensive period of remote-based workflow but the current situation is challenging them in various aspects especially in the productivity area. The study revealed that the lack of interaction, remote network stability and blurred boundaries between work and personal lives are amongst the most concerned areas of identified issues.
On the minor side of things, less than half respondents believed that their employers are fully supportive of long-term remote work but half of the entire participants felt that employers are not supporting the necessary infrastructure to conduct remote workflow. Supporting the results are various identified resource challenges such as bandwidth constraints, signal quality, company portal, management tools of finances/customer relationship/accounting. Around 36% to 42% respondents want employees to at least guarantee these issues does not arise to stay productive. Interestingly, HR support is also an important aspect to look into with lack of team engagement, in-person communication and established practices for remote working being the top challenges to face during the crucial time of digital transition.
Here are some other key findings and numbers for Malaysia you might find interesting.
- Remote work is not new to employees in Malaysia. As many as 70% of Malaysia employees had worked remotely to some degree before MCO measures were implemented. 91% of Gen Z employeeshad worked remotely before MCO.
- The most important factor for remote working is having a stable remote network at 48%. This factor is particularly critical to those in large organisations with more than 1,000 employees, where 54% see this as the number one factor.
- Instability of remote networks, including Internet bandwidth limitations, is the top technology obstacle across all age groups and organisational sizes – 61% of employees aged 55 and above (Baby Boomers) see it as a key challenge, while more than half (52%) of employees in large organisations with more than 1,000 employees
- The lack of or insufficient team engagement initiatives is especially felt by surveyed employees aged 55 and above (Baby Boomers), with half of them (50%) viewing it as the top HR challenge.
You can check out the full findings of the report right here or click here for the infographic version if you want a quick rundown instead.
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