RECRUITMENT WITHOUT BARRIERS: WIDENING THE TALENT POOL
Covid-19 has triggered the world’s biggest remote work experiment, as a consequence have we witnessed the change in the definition of what is work, how it gets done, where it get done and who does it? Without really realising it we have moved into the era of remote teams, flexible working and working from home.
This weeks announcement of Video conferencing firm Zoom $14.7bn deal to buy a cloud-based call centre operator Five9 seems to be a positive marker for the future of working from home and/or flexible working. The pandemic, which prompted an abrupt shift to remote work for many businesses around the world, transformed Zoom into a household name practically overnight. Google and Microsoft have also invested heavily in their video conferencing offerings in the past 12 months.
Pre-pandemic, most companies accepted the notion that you could only perform at the highest level if you showed up at the office every day. But today, companies are looking outside the office, outside the city, even outside the country, tapping into the global talent pool to find the right person for the job. With the UK’s productivity rate currently the second lowest in the G7, many companies are looking at how to maximise productivity, many are looking towards embracing new working practices as a means of increasing output; the option to work from home is currently offered by 65% of employers, and with one in five workers feeling more productive when working remotely, this trend comes as no surprise.
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The Top 3 areas of the UK where Remote Working is one of the most important benefits:
However, employees in the following regions are less interested in this benefit: