Flexible Futures
2 August 2022
Earlier this month The Global Recruiter magazine in association with Sonovate held an online round table which brought together a number of leading recruitment professionals to examine current trends and challenges surrounding flexible work. While the intention was to discuss how clients are deploying flexible work and what can be done to incentivise this, the conversation equally highlighted how the recruitment industry had adopted and was adapting to flexible work. Forever an innovative sector, the conversation showed that it may well be that as flexible work continues to evolve, where recruiters lead others will follow.
Dean Jennings, Hydrogen Group's Global Head of Talent Acquisition took part, and you can read his views here on Page 18.
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