Working from Home – Unassailable Reality Elastic-Kinetic Agile (UREKA) Model beyond COVID-Pandemic Contingency Solution

This is an exploratory research, more experiential insight and hindsight analysis is to provide a platform in lieu the paucity or lack of further information or/and data on post-COVID combined or hybrid of work from home and work in office (WFH and WIO respectively). Thus, the main purpose is directed at instigating readers to think about aspects of the contention-focus of this article to research on eventually. The hybrid model WFH+WIO of post-COVID era since mid-year 2022 opens a fertile area of research new-norm model that harps on the elements of “UREKA” – an acronym that asserts the unassailable reality elastic-kinetic agile model proposal to review key features of WFH values and to propagate new values of WIO a la post COVID era. The objectives of this paper are to determine the core features of WFH values that remain unassailable (i.e. unquestionable in terms of benefits to be derived therefrom), to identify-explain attributes of key characteristics in WIO values, and subsequently propose a solution-driven practical contractual agreement for better employer-employee relations, in the name of improving human resources or/and talent management.