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How is work done today?

In our last blog post We Don't Need to Recreate Silicon Valley, we started exploring the fact that ideas, capital and talent, the key ingredients required for innovation in today’s world; can reside in geographically dispersed locations and still be effectively combined to generate business value.

With emphasis on talents, the point was made that start-ups, scale-ups and corporations are connecting with talent across the globe to solve their local talent challenges by leveraging nearshore and offshore resourcing models to hire the talents they need to get work done. This post delves further into the subject of remote sourcing by attempting to answer the question: HOW IS WORK DONE TODAY?

A discussion on how work is done today is timely because the world of work has changed and is changing. Workforce decentralization as a trend has been in existence for a while as evidenced by the rise and popularity of the gig economy. While these independent contractors and freelancers that make up the gig economy are not necessarily remote, the coronavirus pandemic made remote work more acceptable in the workplace and several organizations have amended their human resource policies and job descriptions as a result.

The pandemic is however not the only factor driving the increase in remote work. Other factors include the preference of skilled workers for remote work, the insufficient number of skilled workers where the organizations that need them are located, cost benefits derived from hiring contractors, etc.

According to the article by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) titled What is meant by “the future of work”?, “The future of work encompasses the need for traditional full and part-time workers alongside leased employees, gig workers and even crowdsourced contributors. The movement of workers into, within and out of an organization due to changing skills requirements caused by advances in technology must be anticipated to meet future needs. Employers must prepare for new jobs and career paths through ongoing job analysis, advanced training and reskilling of the domestic workforce, and utilizing foreign labor where applicable”. That future is here. Organizations are getting more flexible and creative in filling their talent gaps by doing what works for them.

As a consequence of this ongoing shift, there is an increased variation in the locations where work is done. While a lot of work is still done on organization premises, more organizations are adopting a hybrid approach to work, with workers only required to come in occasionally. Others have gone fully remote, providing real flexibility and advantage in accessing the right talent profile for business needs. Fully remote options explored typically include onshoring, nearshoring and offshoring.

Leveraging remote talents to get work done has a positive impact for when work is done. Not having to locate all workers in the same place at the same time means that the organization can take advantage of a geographically dispersed workforce to get work done outside of traditional working hours.

The increased use of remote workers to get work done is not expected to slow down as global boundaries shrink and the world increasingly becomes a global village. Depending on the situation of your business, solving talent issues with remote talent may be an option.

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