Is the office dead? Over the last 15 months we have all had to quickly adapt to remote working, ensuring the continuity of our businesses. We have also seen a number of high-profile companies offering their employees the ability to work from home, which would lead to the question ‘Is this the end of the era of the office?’. There is no right or wrong answer, but by no means is the office gone forever, the pandemic has just accelerated the Hybrid model of work and how we do business. The success of our business has been down to our people. We know we need to be flexible in order to retain and attract top talent. Pre-COVID we had already been adapting to a digital form of working in order to support and enhance the work of our teams. This includes the three pillars of LEAN Construction, BIM and Field Management. We call this SMART ! We deploy innovative technology throughout Ardmac that empowers our people, drives performance and delights our customers. When the pandemic hit and we were all forced to work from the safety of our homes, our teams already had the tools and processes to quickly adapt to the new norm. Our productivity and performance thrived only to be held back by full lockdown shutdowns. Our teams actively worked with our clients during these shutdowns to ensure that once restrictions were lifted we could hit the ground running to alleviate as much of a delay as possible. Our offices will continue to be the heart of our culture, a place we meet to collaborate and innovate. We have ensured our offices are safe and welcoming to all our staff. Mental health wellbeing starts in-house and we actively support our team to find that all important work-life balance – throughout the pandemic we have been active and run an employee assistance programme that gives our staff access to exercise programmes, dietary advice, medication, seminars, competitions and much much more!
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