The prolonged work-from-home experiment, and questions about where employees will want to work, post-pandemic, is leaving many businesses unsure of their future office needs – as well as what the future of the city’s downtown core will look like.
The prolonged work-from-home experiment, and questions about where employees will want to work, post-pandemic, is leaving many businesses unsure of their future office needs – as well as what the future of the city’s downtown core will look like.
There is definitely a fight for talent in most sectors of the economy – in many cases a company’s growth potential is directly connected to its ability to recruit and retain staff.
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A guarded optimism permeates this year’s results from The Welch LLP Ottawa Business Growth Survey, as local businesses leave the darkest days of the pandemic behind and grapple with skyrocketing inflation, tight labour markets and uncertainty around the future of the downtown core and the outcome of a fall municipal election.
Jim McConnery, managing partner at Welch LLP, says that if anything is for certain, it’s that the pre-pandemic status quo is no longer an acceptable operating model.