Third Space Global announces work-from-home programme in Kandy
At a conference held at Hotel Suisse in Kandy to mark the launch of their scalable work-from-home programme to potential teaching candidates, guests were provided with insight into how Third Space Global (TSG) - alongside parent company Third Space Learning - is building the world’s first global and scalable teaching network of highly trained online tutors supported by progressive technology.
Privy to the vacuum of highquality tutoring services in the online education space, TSG was established in 2015 with the intent to provide personalised online teaching for students in schools across England - with a particular focus on children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
At the launch event, TSG General Manager and Country Head Shiyamal Jayathilake spoke earnestly about the need for Sri Lankan companies to do more to make job opportunities more accessible across Sri Lanka.
As a part of its core mission, TSG intends to expand the reach of its unparalleled tutoring services to students irrespective of wealth and social status, and to create rewarding employment opportunities for more people in Sri Lanka by overcoming resolvable constraints. This has led to a considerable increase in valueadded global business support work for its parent company.
At the event, Third Space Learning COO Bryan Tookey pointed out the many reasons Sri Lanka has proven to be a successful and vital operator for the network.
“In addition to the high-quality pool of candidates in the country with good spoken English skills, Third Space Global, under the direction of our global manager Shiyamal, has managed to run an operation that is reliable, good at planning and implementation, and more importantly, one that looks after the welfare of its staff,” he said.
“More generally to other businesses, I would stress that most companies need to make use of the excellent talent pool, and the ability to get things going quickly here in Sri Lanka,” he added.
Having previously piloted the work-from-home model in Colombo to great success, TSG is confident that Kandy too will be quick to accept this opportunity to grow its workforce. Tutors will now be able to choose what times they are ready to commit to, and with the help of a robust initial training programme, followed by an engaging performance management programme and access to further training material to aid continuous development, will be able to remotely conduct lessons from the comfort of their own homes.
“I strongly believe in the idea of working from home where possible,” said TSG General Manager and Country Head Shiyamal Jayathilake. “Not only does it help our staff maintain a good work-life-health balance, it also makes it possible for us to leverage the skills and abilities of Sri Lankans across the country.”
“We intend to seek out and provide job opportunities to every source of talent our country has to offer in this field, and to consequently make accessible our specialised brand of high-quality education to more students across the UK,” he added.