Hybrid Working in Ghanaian Public and Private Sector: To Continue or Terminate?

Abstract

Over the past three decades, the workplace environment has witnessed significant changes across the globe. A paradigm shift towards a hybrid workplace environment has become a common feature among several public and private organisations in recent times, especially during and after COVID-19 pandemic (Iqbal et al., 2021). Given the effect of the pandemic on the activities and performance of most organisations, there was the need for the implementation of a more robust mechanism to keep work going while minimizing the pandemic’s impact. Going hybrid has therefore become a practice embraced by several organisations in different countries around the world, primarily to ensure employees health and safety (Messenger, Lave, & Gschwind, 2017). The emergence of technologies has even made the hybrid workplace practices more possible. Additionally, advancement in communication technologies is changing the possibilities in how workplace collaboration is conducted and the processes in which organisations are executing their projects. It is not surprising that the concept of hybrid workplace environment and technology use has gained attention among several scholars (Justice et al., 2020; Archer‐Brown et al., 2018; Saatçi et al., 2019) with increasing research enquiry into the phenomenon