{"id":777529,"date":"2024-06-18T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T10:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=777529"},"modified":"2024-06-18T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T10:55:59","slug":"another-big-company-officially-adopts-hybrid-work-hours-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/777529\/another-big-company-officially-adopts-hybrid-work-hours-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Another big company officially adopts hybrid work hours in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mazda Southern Africa is moving to a new local headquarters and is introducing a hybrid work model into its operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mazda will now have its local head office at the Hertford Office Park, Midrand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe saw an opportunity to move to a space that better reflects\u00a0Mazda\u2019s brand repositioning and at the same time accommodate for the changes that have taken place in office and workplace environments,&#8221; said Craig Roberts, MD of\u00a0Mazda\u00a0Southern Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new workplace is designed to improve the working environment for all team members due to its convenient and central location, office design and available amenities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, the group will also incorporate a hybrid working model into its operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe recognise that the traditional corporate office environment is no longer as effective as is required and no longer appeals to all employees,&#8221; said Roberts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In today\u2019s world of instant and immediate demands on operations, Mazda knows that employee well-being and work-life balance are essential for employees to deliver on their work objectives.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group is also introducing a WhatsApp and Call-in number, which will be used as a dedicated \u2018open line\u2019 for customers to contact the head office. This forms part of the group&#8217;s efforts to simplify communications with its customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/777484\/south-africa-kisses-r11-billion-goodbye-as-millionaires-head-for-the-door\/\">South Africa kisses R11 billion goodbye as more millionaires head for the door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mazda Southern Africa is moving its local head office, and is introducing a new hybrid working model <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":711242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,15794],"class_list":["post-777529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-mazda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777544,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777529\/revisions\/777544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}