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Home Office

Is home office a good way of working. Maybe it should be limited or canceled completely?

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Brainstorm

The result of a brainstorm is a specific number of issues analyzed:

  • Strengths = 2 items
  • Weaknesses = 2 items
  • Opportunities = 3 items
  • Threats = 3 items
  • Total amount = 10 items
At this stage of the analysis, the issues were arranged in the order specified in the table.

Strengths Weaknesses
  1. Freedom of time planning
  2. Traveling costs optimization
  1. Tougher way to control employees day time
  2. Difficulty of teamwork and social building
Opportunities Threats
  1. Working in the best efficiency moment night or day depends from personal preferences
  2. Building synergy with the work & life balance
  3. Adaptation of the organization to the remote workers management helps with the international employees implementation
  1. Easiest way to take part in recruitment process
  2. feeling of loneliness and exclusion
  3. Loosing control of being at work or in home

Crucial Issues

The recommendation points to - "defensive strategy". Look at the frequency of pointing to certain factors.
  • 3 - interactions
    • Building synergy with the work & life balance - Opportunities
    • Loosing control of being at work or in home - Threats
    • Working in the best efficiency moment night or day depends from personal preferences - Opportunities
    • Easiest way to take part in recruitment process - Threats
    • Tougher way to control employees day time - Weaknesses
  • 2 - interactions
    • Freedom of time planning - Strengths
    • feeling of loneliness and exclusion - Threats
    • Difficulty of teamwork and social building - Weaknesses
    • Adaptation of the organization to the remote workers management helps with the international employees implementation - Opportunities
  • 1 - interaction
    • Traveling costs optimization - Strengths

Relevance

A quantitative statement of categorized and properly weighted values on a 1-5 scale. 5 - very important, 1 - not so much important.

Priority / Relevance 5* 4* 3* 2* 1*
Strengths 1 1
Weaknesses 1 1
Opportunities 1 1 1
Threats 1 1 1


For the SWOT and TOWS analysis, only factors with a priority equal to or greater than 0.

Detailed list of priorities in categories.
  • Strengths
    • Relevance 5
      • Traveling costs optimization
    • Relevance 3
      • Freedom of time planning
  • Weaknesses
    • Relevance 3
      • Tougher way to control employees day time
    • Relevance 2
      • Difficulty of teamwork and social building
  • Opportunities
    • Relevance 5
      • Working in the best efficiency moment night or day depends from personal preferences
    • Relevance 4
      • Building synergy with the work & life balance
    • Relevance 3
      • Adaptation of the organization to the remote workers management helps with the international employees implementation
  • Threats
    • Relevance 5
      • Easiest way to take part in recruitment process
    • Relevance 4
      • Loosing control of being at work or in home
    • Relevance 2
      • feeling of loneliness and exclusion
# Opportunities Threats
Strengths

aggressive strategy

Final Sum
11.125

conservative strategy

Final Sum
5.4544
Weaknesses

competitive strategy

Final Sum
5.6

defensive strategy

Final Sum
11.3635

Based on the interactions summary, we can find out the percentage weight of a particular strategy.

  • aggressive strategy : 33%
  • conservative strategy : 16%
  • competitive strategy : 17%
  • defensive strategy : 34%

There are strategies that should be prioritized, but other have also important impact.

Combination SWOT Score TOWS Score SWOT&TOWS Score
Sum of interactions Sum of ratios Sum of interactions Sum of ratios Sum of interactions Sum of ratios
S & O 3 1.375 5 1.75 8 3.125
S & T 0 0 4 1.4544 4 1.4544
W & O 1 0.6 3 1 4 1.6
S & T 4 2 4 1.3635 8 3.3635
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defensive strategy
A defensive strategy is taken up in the least advantageous situation. The organization operates in an unfavorable environment, and additionally the internal threats are strengthened by internal weaknesses of the company. You need to try to minimize weaknesses and threats. It is very difficult because a company does not have any strong sides or opportunities, which could be used here.
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