{"id":50383,"date":"2021-06-28T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=50383"},"modified":"2021-06-28T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:16:06","slug":"how-remote-work-impacts-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/how-remote-work-impacts-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"How Work-Anywhere Momentum is Impacting Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The year 2020 changed many work environments and how jobs get done. Human resources teams weren’t alone in scrambling to make a pandemic pivot. However, the widespread, rapid adoption of a work-anywhere approach continues to have reverberations for recruiting and hiring.<\/p>\n

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Around the world, work environments are again opening their doors to employees. But those months of working remotely have already taken root. Looking into the Future of Remote Work, McKinsey in November 2020 reported<\/a>, \u201cHybrid models of remote work are likely to persist in the wake of the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The idea of working from home pre-pandemic was met with resistance, either from the employer or employee (or both). Then, quarantine forced millions of individuals to work from home. The expectation was it would be short-term. But the months of isolation continued and people began to adapt to working remotely. Work processes and attitudes around remote work activities shifted.<\/p>\n

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Especially among the highly skilled, highly educated workers, it has become clear that they could work just as effectively if they stayed away from the office three to five days a week. McKinsey reported, \u201cThe virus has broken through cultural and technological barriers that prevented remote work in the past, setting in motion a structural shift in where work takes place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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What does all of this mean for recruiting and hiring? During the pandemic these efforts had to move online. Employers were interviewing people via Zoom, running remote onboarding, and bringing new hires into a fully virtual work environment to start. Yet, as business re-opens, HR too is moving to a more hybrid approach to recruiting and hiring.<\/p>\n

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Recruiting and hiring in the remote work environment<\/h2>\n

The remote work environment moved recruiting and hiring processes online. From now on, digital strategies are no longer a \u201cnice to have.\u201d They are essential. Especially when it comes to appealing to the future workforce of digital natives.\u00a0Online recruiting can lead to a more inclusive workforce. As Kristina McDougall, founder of executive recruiting firm Artemis Canada<\/a> stated, \u201cWhen contained to a local talent pool, even when it is a high-quality talent pool, employees will have similar education, work experience, and even socio-economic backgrounds.\u201d But opening up job opportunities to the remote worker can lead to richer and differentiated education, experience, and professional networks.<\/p>\n

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This broader talent pool can also dramatically increase the number of qualified candidates available. That\u2019s great. At the same time, it can be overwhelming. Finding the best talent for the right role requires recruiters to learn:<\/p>\n

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