Business View Magazine | June 2022

10 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 6 TS Office workers are becoming harder to find and retain. 84 percent of organizations hiring professional and office workers are struggling to find talent, up from 60 percent in April 2021. • That’s compared to 81 percent of those struggling to hire industry and manual services workers, a rate similar to that of the April 2021 survey (80 percent). 64 percent of organizations with mostly professional and office workers report difficulty retaining talent, more than doubling from 28 percent in April 2021. • 73 percent of organizations with mostly industry and manual workers report difficulty retaining talent, a significant increase from 49 percent last year. There’s been a six-fold increase in the hiring of fully remote workers. • Half (49 percent) of organizations are willing to hire fully virtual employees, up from only 8 percent pre-pandemic. • 38 percent still prefer to hire remote employees who can occasionally commute into the office. Just four percent of companies are requiring full- time, on-site work. • Only four percent of organizations are requiring all workers to return fulltime. • 90 percent are now allowing hybrid work. • 60 percent made working completely remotely optional. “Over the last few years, we’ve seen headline after headline focus on the dwindling supply of manual and trade services workers. But our most recent survey reveals that office and professional To remain competitive, companies should further leverage hybrid and fully-remote work arrangements, the latter of which has increased six-fold over the last year