Hybrid working may not be perfect – Should candidates expect work from home options?

Hybrid working may not be perfect – Should candidates expect work from home options?

By AFR Consulting / 1st May 2024 / Comments Off on Hybrid working may not be perfect – Should candidates expect work from home options?

Since the Pandemic hybrid working has become far more commonplace for many workers. In fact, some candidates now see WfH as standard practice and expect employers to offer it. The question we rarely ask though is whether WfH, and its companion hybrid working, are always a good thing.

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No more commuting? Will we all be returning to the office?

By AFR Consulting / 4th June 2021 / Comments Off on No more commuting? Will we all be returning to the office?

There has been a lot of chatter about whether people will return to the office after lockdown finally eases. If we were all in the office pre-pandemic, why would we not go back post-pandemic? Actually, it may not be quite as cut and dried as it first seems, ‘Should the workforce return to the office?’…

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Working from Home – Is it now accepted practice?

By AFR Consulting / 26th February 2021 / Comments Off on Working from Home – Is it now accepted practice?

One of the biggest changes to our working practices for many years has been the sudden shift to working from home. Thanks to lockdown, it is now so common that it is almost an expectation, and the abbreviation WFH has slipped into regular use. It’s wrong to simply put this down to Covid, though. Pre-lockdown…

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Is work from home (WFH) the new normal in finance?

By AFR Consulting / 23rd July 2020 / Comments Off on Is work from home (WFH) the new normal in finance?

One of the unexpected results of the lockdown has been a sort of mental gear shift about the validity of working from home (WFH) as accepted practice. Even the most resistant of managers had to embrace the principles of WFH during the worst of the pandemic. There was no choice, so there it was, live…

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