PROMOTE WORKFORCE FLEXIBILITY TO IMPROVE HIRING!

Our #1 hiring tip for this year includes addressing some trends we are seeing that we believe every CEO should be focused on in 2023.

Work Flexibility and Work-Life Balance

We recommend companies consider a paradigm shift and take a serious look at both store and work hours to demonstrate a commitment to workforce flexibility.  Focus on Flexible work arrangements (where and when people work).

REMOTE AND HYBRID SCHEDULES FOR BACK OFFICE AND SUPPORTING ROLES

We recommend not waiting until a key person leaves your organization because a competitor offered a great hybrid schedule for a key back office administrative or management role.

  • Offer Remote work -  for those office jobs that are not customer-facing this deserves a major review and rethinking.  Too many companies are offering office environments with remote flex, hybrid, and fully remote environments to ignore offering some flexibility in this area of scheduling.

We know there are studies demonstrating that a hybrid model is most effective for onboarding, ongoing communication, and for team collaboration.  Pure remote models are really struggling across industries and companies including private, state, and government entities. 

STORES AND CUSTOMER-FACING ROLES 

  • Talk to your employees openly about the need to cover certain key hours.  Form a team to review this and ask them to formulate recommendations.  They will know what’s possible and how to cover the hours.  Keep in mind that your view is typically from a higher level and you may have some bias built in based on outdated workforce models. 

  • Consider a 4-day workweek for certain key roles.  If Part-time flex is not part of your scheduling model most likely it’s a result of never really creating a strategic part-time model.  

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Bill O’Malley is President of Connector Team Recruiting a firm headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia specializing in the Furniture | Appliance and Sleep verticals. Connector Team is a full-service Search Firm offering permanent placement recruiting and interim staffing solutions.

Feel free to contact Bill at bill@connectorteamrecruiting.com.

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