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THE NEW WORLD OF WORK
During two important Impact Session at the 2020 Finance Indaba Network virtual launch, leading executives shared their triumphs over the challenges of Covid-19 and explained how CFOs have become chief value officers instead of beancounters.
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uring the opening session at the launch day of the 2020 Finance Indaba Network, Vodacom group CFO Raisibe Morathi, University of Johannesburg CFO Nolwazi Mamorare and Momentum Corporate CEO Dumo Mbethe shared their views on the challenges of working through Covid-19, and the learnings that will shape the workplace of the future.
For Raisibe, the virtual workplace offers more pros than cons. One of these advantages is how a virtual environment can flatten the distance between leadership and employees. “A digital workplace allows you to connect with many more people than you ordinarily would,” she said. “Location is no longer important. An employee no longer needs to penetrate through management levels to reach a leader within an organisation.”
One thing is clear, while the post-Covid-19 workplace will not look the same in every industry or company, the workplace will not return to where it was before the crisis.
Raisibe believes this is a time for leaders to lead with empathy and consider the different environments from which employees are working. While she held the position of CFO at Nedbank, she kept in regular con-
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