The working from home revolution means spend management is more important than ever!
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James Vear, General Manager APAC, Compleat Software James joined Compleat’s UK team back in 2017 with experience in financial and payment software, having previously worked at Xero Australia and PS Financials. He now heads up Compleats APAC Division in Melbourne Australia.
Over the last year, most business staff have been forced to work from home. This was a necessity that we found ourselves in. But now that we are slowly on the other side of the worst of the pandemic, why are business and their staff not flocking back into offices around the world?
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s many predicted, the working from home revolution is here to stay. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 41% of people with a job worked from home at least once a week. This is a huge increase compared to the pre-pandemic stats of only 24%.
new job said the most important thing to them in a new role is flexibility to work from home”. They said this has overtaken the more traditionally most important items such as money or future promotions. Candidates would rather forgo money in place of being able to work from home more regularly.
A recruiter in Melbourne told me that “Every candidate looking for a
So, we know that people want the flexibility of working from
home going forward, it will be an important part of company culture and the way they recruit talent. But how will this effect the way we spend money within the company? Money is going to be tighter Initially, every business that managed to survive will want to count every cent. Keeping staff was key, but with that comes
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