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The Impact of the Pandemic: Working Practices
The Impact of the Pandemic. Do working practices need to change? Is there the expectation that they will? How’s it been for people? The results of our recent survey provide some answers.
Thanks to everyone who completed the BLT ‘How Are You?’ Survey that we ran in December 2020 amongst the Indirect Tax community – fascinating results. Here are the headline conclusions of the questionnaire.
Personal life vs. Professional life? What’s caused individuals the most concern during the Covid crisis? Read More
BLT Management Consultancy Quarterly – January 2021
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Company Culture – Has it been missed?
How do you assess company culture and make sure it’s properly communicated? Especially now when interviewees don’t even have the opportunity to chat to a few other people between interviews while in the office or have a look around the lay out and general atmosphere.
Two thirds of employees surveyed by Career Builder felt they’d taken jobs that were a bad fit and over 50% left those jobs within 6 months. Given the time, money and effort expended on new employees in this period this is something companies can ill afford at this time. It’s a crucial aspect of remote interviews that can often be overlooked and the onus is on both parties to bring it up. Read More
Face Time not FaceTime: do we need to ‘Check the Tech’?
Ever the optimist, I’ve tried to look on the bright side of strife as much as possible recently. It’s not always easy, but the question I keep coming back to is where we would be if this pandemic had happened, say, 20 years ago? Or even 10?
Purely in the context of what technology makes possible, we’re lucky this has happened when it has. Without today’s technology I dare say we’d either all still have to be commuting on packed trains and politely passing Covid along to the next colleague in the office each week, or we’d literally all be sitting at home doing nothing and with probably no company to return to anyway. Read More
A blended approach to office and home working seems the most likely outcome as 2021 continues….
Looking toward our next period of post-lockdown, hopefully one that will last, I think this article in the Harvard Business makes some good points around the value in face-to-face interactions. It seems unlikely the majority of us will return to permanent office based working with a blended approach the most likely outcome. Read More