The changing workforce: remote but country-centric, agile but tech-bound What might the changing workforce look like? Country-based operations, remote hires, and management strategies, and diversity and inclusion as the key to successful upskilling: these are some suggestions by talent management experts from the Will Group Talent Management
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he pandemic has changed, perhaps permanently, the way many organizations see hiring and even the way they structure their workforce. After a full year of layoffs, hiring freezes, cutting back of operations, withdrawals from markets, and many more forms of business contraction, not to mention the sweeping changes brought about by accelerated digitalization, the workforce is starting to look very different, and so are many jobs. People Matters spoke to three experts in the talent management and HR technology industry to get a better understanding of how the workforce is evolving. What they shared about today's market for talent is paradoxical, but also logical given the changes in today's business environment. | July 2021
Caleb Baker
Managed by country, hired across geographies Caleb Baker Managing Director for Strategic Growth, Technology and Talent Solutions at HR solutions group Will, shared that he has observed regional organizational structures being challenged by the pandemic, essentially leading to more, and possibly smaller, leadership teams.
Claire Teden
Kate Coath
“Demand for regional leadership roles is softening,” he told People Matters. “We’re seeing that multinationals, both western and Asian, are implementing a country-based organizational structure where in-country leadership and client-proximity are needed to drive effectiveness in the absence of travel.” He raised two potential signifi-
