Workplace Communication Barriers: Analysis, Solutions and Awareness

This report identifies several communication barriers affecting employees, including physical, emotional, interpersonal, organizational, and perceptual obstacles, particularly related to COVID-19 concerns. It emphasizes the importance of cultural awareness and proposes solutions such as health compensation, strict adherence to safety protocols, systematic shifts, ensuring workplace safety through PPE, and promoting vaccination. The report references various studies to support its findings and recommendations, aiming to improve workplace communication and safety.

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Physical barrier
Workers are concerned regarding their safety from the spread of Covid 19 virus, as they are not ready to travel from the
public transportation in order to come to the work.
Business communication
Perceptual Barrier
Few of the workers have not taken the jab of the needed vaccine and currently the workers that have took the vaccine shot.
are concerned to talk or communicate with other personally (Luthra, and et.al., 2022).
Emotional Barrier
The workers of the firm feel that all the employees can work appropriately as well as comfortably with their own
convenience (Cannizzo, Mauriand, Osbaldiston, 2019).
Interpersonal Barrier
Workers of the firm are not sure in respect to their interpersonal skills. Therefore, employees are not confident in order to
engage with their subordinates in the office (Jiang, and et.al., 2020).
Organisational structure barrier
Workers are worried because of their safety from the virus as in the premises of office there is lack of ventilation and risk of
social distancing in the firm (Large and Gandhi, S., 2022).

Importance of cultural awareness
It is understood that there are various of issues which has been increased due to the lack of communication as the workers have various valid
points to not to join office back.
Following all the protocols - In order to eliminate the barriers, company needs to imparts its message or data in the proper
manner which is conveniently graspable by its workers and also firm need to use in a identifiable manner by its staff easily.
So company should implement rules in their premises, regarding the need of appropriate social distancing as well as need of
wearing mask and by obeying all the required protocols made by the government (Noar, and Austin, 2020)
Strategies/ Solutions
Vaccination - Management of Bri tech should either set up a vaccination camp or they should make it mandatory for their
employees to be vaccinated at least with the single dose. It will support the firm in eliminating the fear or people regarding
the covid 19 (Seward, and et.al., 2019).
Value of Cultural Awareness
Workplace safety – Management of Bri tech need to make sure that their workplace is safe. Company need to prepare as
well as communicate with their workers that the main priority of the company is the safety of their employees by providing
them with all the personal protective equipment’s such as face shields, gloves, personal sanitizer, mask etc. (Pagano, and
et.al., 2021)
Systematic Shifts – Respective company need to be strict in order to establish physical distancing protocol in their
workplaces by making their employees come to office every alternative day and in which rest or lunch break also need to be
implemented on the alternative shifts in order to reduce the chances of their employees getting infected.
Health compensation – Management should focus on providing their workers appropriate employee benefits plans.
The company must also make sure that their employees are subjected to the benefit of adequate insurance policies mainly
with respect to the protection from the continuous raising concerns of the Covid-19 virus (Arnold, 2019).

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