Comments from the Authors - Looking to the Future Matthew Evans “I do not think the centralised office will ever go. The issue at the moment is due to the logistics of transport rather than the office itself. People still want to go to a place of work. Whether they want 5 days a week is changing. People want to be able to work remotely and flexibly. We envisage team/client meetings in our office, utilising safe working practices, less people in the office but ultimately the office will be a place to meet rather than a place to work. Because we have the technology and are self-sufficient, we will use the office to share ideas and collaborate rather than being chained to the desk. We can reconfigure our space to contain more facilities such as meeting room and tech capabilities – used as a destination or venue rather than to work from in a traditional sense. The ultimate goal is improving productivity and well-being whilst also helping the environment and sustainability.”
Ben Duffill “In recent weeks we have proven that video technology can replace and supplement various parts of a recruitment campaign process, including elements of the interview process. If, in the future, we are able to adopt a positive attitude towards this, which ensures a culture of utilising digital technology as a significant part of a recruitment campaign process, there promises to be numerous advantages relating to process efficiency, promotion of diversity, sustainability and increased successful outcomes. That said, clearly one of the most important factors in recruitment is personal interaction and the chemistry between a prospective candidate and the stakeholders within a recruiting organisation and it could be argued that you do lose some of this ‘feeling’ by running a fully digital process. I therefore believe that looking to the future the most effective recruitment campaigns will comprise of a marriage between digital processes that give the numerous advantages that I have described earlier coupled with sessions that enable face to face personal interaction at the later stages of a recruitment campaign before a final decision on an appointment is made.”
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