Businesses find creative ways to hire employees remotely
Despite the global pandemic, companies are still hiring.
Sixty percent of companies have hired at least one employee since the beginning of the pandemic, according to a study conducted by business news website The Manifest (www.manifest.com).
Approximately half of businesses (46%) have hired 10 or more new employees since the start of the pandemic, concludes data from a study of 505 HR professionals and 234 employees in the U.S.
Businesses are finding creative ways to hire employees remotely through group sessions and virtual meetings. As more companies hire remotely, a term that has gained popularity is “onboarding.” Beyond individual hiring, employee onboarding means hiring groups of employees so that socialization and culture training can be taught.
An important reason for hiring new employees in groups is to make the hiring process more efficient and less time-consuming, reports website DotcomDollar ( www.dotcomdollar.) To counter the impersonal nature of onboarding, companies are building connections through multiple communication channels such as video calls.
Manifest’s study also found that employees are more likely to stay with their current company due to economic uncertainty. More than 60% of HR professionals expect new hires to stay at their company for two or more years, the study said. This telling finding aligns with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ 2018 report that the average time wage or salary worker remains at his job 4.2 years. The economic uncertainty created by the pandemic will likely raise the average number of years employees spent at a company.
Only 3% of HR professionals expect more than one-third of their workforce to leave their jobs within the next year.
And more than onethird of HR professionals surveyed (37%) said that employees are likely to quit their jobs within the next year due to work-life imbalance.
Taking into consideration the constraints of working remotely, creating a work-life balance is more difficult yet more essential than ever before, say HR experts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has increased availability for many employees.
Business pundits are saying that companies should try to strike a balance between effectively using remote workers and ensuring their mental and physical health.
Companies still hiring
While many companies are laying off workers because of the pandemic, a significant number are still hiring, reports web
site TheLadders.com. For example, governmentrelated, customer service and warehouse workers, package handlers, accountants and health care workers are still very much in demand.
Online companies that don’t depend upon brickand-mortar locations, such as pharmaceutical and technology companies and supermarket
chains, are still hiring.
TheLadders.com reports that the following companies are hiring:
• Remote meeting and communication companies. Online conferences are much easier to initiate and manage than physically staging a live event.
• Online learning . What better time to learn new skills and brush up on existing ones than
right now when most people are working remotely?
• Shipping and delivery companies. Since the pandemic began, people have been ordering significantly more than they have in the past. Companies like Amazon, for example, have been beefing up their staffs in order to meet the increased demand.