Make WFA work for your business

With work-from-anywhere here to stay, remote workspaces need to deliver in-office capabilities while being optimised to individual needs. Support your team to perform at its best and see the results.

Get fit for performance

Happy employees are more productive. They take less time off work and are more efficient when they’re on the job. But while working from anywhere might be a good fit for some, adopting a remote or hybrid model long term can be detrimental to others, especially if they don’t have the right technology and equipment in place. So how do you manage this broadly and effectively across your business?

Flexiworks, part of Officeworks, is a new, first-of-its-kind digital platform designed to support managers and remote teams. Employees can shop from a list of Officeworks products to optimise their own set-up while employers can control costs, standardise capabilities and identify and minimise risks.

Minimise staff turnover

According to a recent Deloitte report, the annual cost of staff turnover sits at $3.8 billion in lost productivity for Australian businesses and $385 million in avoidable recruitment costs. And these numbers don’t even account for the Great Resignation predicted for 2022.

Giving employees autonomy and being considerate of their personal situations fosters loyalty. Flexiworks empowers staff to customise their ideal space from a pre-approved range of products suitable for their role or the employer can give them access to the whole Officeworks catalogue with a budget. Orders are delivered to the employee’s door.

Prioritise wellbeing for productivity

It’s an employer’s duty to ensure the wellbeing of employees, wherever they are. Companies should be updating policies, providing guidance on creating a safe, fit-to-purpose workspace and offering access to all the tools needed.

“One misconception is that the type of work people do at computers is all the same,” says ergonomics expert Ted Dohrmann of Dohrmann Consulting. “Actually, it varies a lot. How do you use that computer? How do you interact with your keyboard?”

The Flexiworks online Workplace Assessment Tool helps employees build safe, more productive WFA environments by recommending the products that are best suited to them.

Save time and money

Flexiworks also frees managers up from the tangle of administration. There are no purchase orders or expense claims because costs are controlled by pre-allocated budgets or credit limits. Investment can be tailored to teams and departments, with no minimum spend required.

And an easy-to-use dashboard not only tracks purchases but automates reports for managers on employee spend.