The opinions of the pharmaceutical community vary widely

Moving to change the company's culture by lifting social distance

conflicting opinions on attendance, company dinners, and the revival of workshops

Employees of pharmaceutical companies who have entered the era of post-COVID-19 due to the end of social distancing are divided.

 

Various opinions are coming out as it is divided into pharmaceutical companies that maintain telecommuting and pharmaceutical companies that terminate.

 

Pros and cons also followed group meetings such as company dinners and workshops.

 

According to the pharmaceutical industry on the 21st, as social distancing has been completely lifted, pharmaceutical companies are also preparing to return to their daily lives.

 

They would like to reduce or end telecommuting, and gradually promote suspended dinners and workshops.

 

However, employees who have been satisfied with telecommuting and reduced company dinners for two years have recognized that commuting and company dinners are unnecessary hours.

 

They look upset at the news that they can return to their old company culture.

 

A, an employee of a multinational company, said, "I've had enough meetings and work from home, and my work efficiency has increased," adding, "Now I feel like commuting time is a waste.

 

It's better to take care of one more task at that time," he said.

 

B, an employee of a domestic company, said, "When there was a business hour limit, it ended at 9-10 o'clock even if we had a company dinner, but now there is no time limit, so the burden has increased.

 

I'm already stressed out because I can have a company dinner until after midnight like before." C, an employee of a domestic company, also said, "There are already talks about having a company dinner in the department.

 

During the COVID-19 period, I was able to enjoy a "life with dinner" while doing personal hobby activities, but I think it will be difficult to enjoy hobbies now, he confessed.

 

Pharmaceutical salespeople, who had become a daily routine to go to work in the local area, are also worried that the number of office workers will increase.

 

D, a sales employee at a domestic company, said, "As the number of office visits decreased due to COVID-19, the movement path was efficient, but the lifting of distance is likely to double the time to go to work again." There are some people who welcome going to work.

 

This is because they felt limited in communication through telecommuting.

 

E, an employee of a multinational company, said, "I moved during the COVID-19 period, but it took a while to identify employees in each department because I was working from home," adding, "It is not easy to communicate because there are still a lot of people out of touch.

 

It seems that face-to-face communication is much more helpful in handling tasks with a lot of collaboration between departments," he said.

 

F, an employee of a multinational company, said, "I have a hard time staying at home for a long time, so I feel lonely and depressed because I had to work from home when COVID-19 was serious, but now I have autonomy to go to work on purpose." In fact, the preference was also mixed in a survey conducted by commercial real estate data company Rsquare on career tech platform people and 2,625 office workers in their 20s and 50s or older last month.

 

37% of the respondents preferred the form of "going to work at the office and working in a designated seat," while half of them cited "the necessity and efficiency of face-to-face work" as the reason.

 

Respondents in their 30s preferred "hybrid work," a mixture of commuting and telecommuting.

 

The company's workshop, which had been suspended for a while, is also showing signs of reviving.

 

There are opinions that a workshop is needed for unity and opinions that it is unnecessary.

 

G, an employee of a domestic company, said, "In particular, after COVID-19, new employees do not know who belongs to which department because OJT (on the job training) is also online.

 

In the past, collaboration was smooth through workshops and interdepartmental dinners, but since it was suspended for more than two years, we often had difficulty knowing each other, he said.

 

"I hope there will be a chance to get together once in a while, even if not often." H, a domestic company employee, said, "I don't know if I really need to go to a group workshop.

 

It is possible to communicate smoothly through tea meetings between collaborative departments, he said.

 

"It has been suspended due to COVID-19, but if we make good use of small meetings such as company clubs, we will be able to produce better effects than workshops."