Your Digital Business
Sourcing Talent Through Technology
T
he global office revolution has arrived. For employers, the days of sitting back and waiting for perfect candidates to walk in are over.
Whether you are a small business or a global market leader, How you engage or employ is vital to your business. But with a global skills shortage, good talent is increasingly hard to find and it affects the overall performance of a company negatively. Everyone knows recruitment is time intensive and increasingly, expensive, which leads many to question whether the whole process is fundamentally broken.
The market opportunity But it’s not all bad news. Technology has created a global talent market that just wasn’t available previously. The talent is out there and online work platforms such as
Elance.com make this new market accessible to anyone, from one- person-startups and small businesses to large enterprises and multi-national corporations.
For the HR team, this poses new questions. How does a company’s use of (local) talent weigh up against a remote workforce? HR teams need to spend time with line managers to evaluate the tasks and jobs that really do need to be done on-site versus online via outsourced freelancers.
In times of economic uncertainty, a flexible workforce of freelancers can save a company money both in the short and long run. Why employ someone full-time when a project
might finish in a few months? If times get tough, a large payroll is one of the biggest burdens, especially for an SME.
The office of the future isn’t
in the office. Tapping into the potential of this virtual workforce requires more than just new HR processes. It takes a shift in the way companies are run and operate.
Globalised work relies on technological solutions. The internet has opened up potential new ways of working. Offices no longer need to be places where a core team meets to collaborate and socialise on a regular basis. Companies with distributed workforces are already making use of co-working with shared office spaces like Regus. This doesn’t just give flexibility to employees but adds flexibility to the company’s bottom line.
But many companies are realising they don’t need physical office space at all. Virtual offices, in the cloud, are fast becoming the new business frontier. There’s low capital expenditure and, with modern communication and collaboration tools like Skype, Tokbox and
Join.me, employee effectiveness doesn’t need to be compromised.
If the idea of doing a one or two hour commute every single day fills you with dread, then the virtual office quickly becomes a more attractive prospect.
By Kjetil J. Olsen
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