3 Simple Principles to Stay-Employed in the COVID Era!

Pandemic has disturbed the entire eco-system. Even employers are looking at you from a different lens altogether, earlier you were competing with others now you are competing with yourself. The most uphill task in hand today is to keep the businesses relevant to the current scenario. Corporations, entrepreneurs, and leaders are learning every hour and changing strategies to stay-afloat.

It is imperative for employees also to keep themselves relevant to businesses to stay-employed. Global fear of lay-offs and shrinking workforce is evident but at the same time, people across the globe are getting hired. Why? because they are relevant to the businesses, especially in this period.

To stay relevant to business and stay employed you must follow 5 basics principles:

Change perspective (Think beyond your KRAs?): People who behaved like employees and looked at jobs from a 9-5 perspective are not relevant to businesses anymore. To stay relevant, you must have a holistic business perspective, understand the entire flow of business. Keep an eye on the entire process of running the organization and contribute wherever possible. This is the time to ask yourself if your contribution is enough for organization's survival?

Value every single penny (If this is your money, how would you use it?): A lot has been written and talked about pay-cuts. Even corporations with humongous cash-flows are trying every possible strategy to preserve the cash for a tougher time to come and pay-cut is one of them. One of the biggest expenditures in the current century is Salary and to stay afloat, it is imperative to keep a close watch on the salary outflows. If you do not understand the value of money and how to manage cash for rainy days, and cribbing about pay-cuts you are not the employee to continue with. Be thankful for being employed.

Say bye to work-life balance (work faster and longer): This is an extremely dear subject of human resources professionals across the globe, it has millions of advocates. We read stories of successful people, I don't remember any successful professional/entrepreneur who advocated this. I believe, you just have to balance life and this is in your hand. COVID-19 already threw us years back, coming back to old levels requires extra-ordinary efforts with more work hours. If you are already habitual to long work hours, you are relevant to business, if not, start acting now.

If you are contributing to business beyond your KRAs, bringing positivity even after pay-cut and working longer hours to mitigate the losses incurred due to pandemic, believe me, you are relevant to the business.