Inclusive remote working can provide talent boost
20 March 2013
Workplaces of the future will look different to those of today – and an emptier office where more companies allow more people to work from home would mean incorporating more good talent into a recruitment process.
Wed, 20 Mar 2013
Workplaces of the future will look different to those of today – and an emptier office where more companies allow more people to work from home would mean incorporating more good talent into a recruitment process.
This is according to Denise Keating, chief executive of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei), speaking to Recruiter last week at the organisation’s conference, ‘The enei Provocation’.
“We’re doing some work around agile working, and what we’re saying is that workplaces of the future are going to look quite different today, suddenly you’re going to have buildings that are much emptier than people planned them to be,” Keating says.
“You only really need hubs to bring people together for socialistion, creativity, team meetings and you don’t need people to travel an hour to work to sit in front of a computer and travel home again – where’s your corporate responsibility, what about the stress on the individual, what about the cost and there’s all that stuff going so we’re trying to get employers into a different place”
Keating concludes: “There’s a huge opportunity to recruit with diversity if you give them flexibility.” The opportunity being not just to be fairer and more ethical, but to open your doors to more good staff, by not requiring them to come through those doors every day.
Workplaces of the future will look different to those of today – and an emptier office where more companies allow more people to work from home would mean incorporating more good talent into a recruitment process.
This is according to Denise Keating, chief executive of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei), speaking to Recruiter last week at the organisation’s conference, ‘The enei Provocation’.
“We’re doing some work around agile working, and what we’re saying is that workplaces of the future are going to look quite different today, suddenly you’re going to have buildings that are much emptier than people planned them to be,” Keating says.
“You only really need hubs to bring people together for socialistion, creativity, team meetings and you don’t need people to travel an hour to work to sit in front of a computer and travel home again – where’s your corporate responsibility, what about the stress on the individual, what about the cost and there’s all that stuff going so we’re trying to get employers into a different place”
Keating concludes: “There’s a huge opportunity to recruit with diversity if you give them flexibility.” The opportunity being not just to be fairer and more ethical, but to open your doors to more good staff, by not requiring them to come through those doors every day.
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