Organizations need to continue to evolve performance assessment: GitLab’s Jessica Mitchell
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Organizations will need to continue to evolve on how they assess performance and productivity especially if they have transitioned from a more conventional workforce to a fully remote workforce during the pandemic, says Jessica Mitchell, Director, HR Business Partner at GitLab, in an interaction with People Matters
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essica Mitchell is a Director, People Business Partner at GitLab with over 20 years of Human Resources experience. At GitLab, Jessica has supported the Development, Product, and Marketing teams in the People Business Partner function. Prior to GitLab, Jessica has held various HR roles within companies like Marconi, Cisco, and SailPoint Technologies. Jessica is passionate about helping drive solutions that focus on team member engagement, development, and business solutions. Here are the excerpts of the interview.
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By Mastufa Ahmed
With COVID-19 triggering an enormous shift in how and where work gets done, what according to you are the top two trends that will have significant impacts on businesses globally? Remote work: Companies will have to embrace and support team members who want to work remotely full-time post-COVID-19. Many team members have learned that they are more productive working remotely while having a positive impact on their personal lives due to less time commuting and the flexible
work schedules that improve better quality of life. Global compensation:
With the move to having more team members working remotely with many doing a similar role, we will see a shift in paying employees based on location, not role.
GitLab was fully remote even before the pandemic. Is remote work here to stay? Can it help in creating a more sustainable future of work? What have you learned from this pandemic? Being able to recruit and hire from most countries FEBRUARY 2021 |
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