Remember when we were told that people were quitting their sedentary office jobs to live a new life planting vegetables in the countryside? Well, it appears to have been a false alarm: workers are returning en masse to their pre-pandemic workplaces
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As the business world heads into 2021 with great optimism, a cloud of uncertainty remains hanging over the heads of many leaders.
Execs are faced with two different realities: a pre-vaccine world of remote work and a post-vaccine world of figuring out how to safely engage with employees, job candidates, and customers.
To help business leaders better prepare, some of LinkedIn s top executives have started to reimagine what this new world of work will look like in 2021 and beyond.
1. Don t let location limit hiring efforts.
As remote work becomes more widely accepted, landing a job won t and shouldn t be dependent on where talent lives. LinkedIn s chief economist, Karin Kimbrough,writes that as remote work becomes more mainstream, we will see a democratization of opportunity and spread of skills across the country. Workers who may not have had the means or desire to move to high cost-of-living areas will have access to new jobs, and companies will have acces
Technology is combined with leadership to aid wellbeing
With office spaces being rethought around the notion that employees will be working from home some – or even most – of the time, businesses will need to think about how they can recapture some of the benefits that come with having a shared space to collaborate and communicate.
Fiona Camenzuli, people and organization leader at PwC, says that businesses will need to find intuitive ways of combining technology with empathetic leadership skills, not just to bolster productivity, but to counteract the isolating effects of working from home long-term, which have been well-documented throughout 2020.
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