Babu Venkatachalapathy Offshore Staffing is the practice of hiring employees overseas to take up some part of your business operations. Offshoring is a method of outsourcing that has been around for a long time. Its origin dates back to the 1960s, when developed nations offshored manufacturing services to other countries. Lee Kuan Yew, the then Prime Minister read more
A 2021 report by McKinsey & Company reveals that 87% of the companies worldwide are skeptical of a skill gap within their organization. While 43% of the respondents believe they are already faced with a skill shortage, 22% said they anticipate one in the next two years. As a result, many companies rely on overseas talent read more
An organization’s true lifeblood is its workforce, which collectively operates strategically to attain the enterprise objective. Securing competent, highly skilled, and reliable talent is an arduous affair, and most Human Resource Managers are familiar with this. Hiring and retaining employees is another challenging task that managers battle almost frequently in today’s business landscape. However, hiring read more
2020
Jim Wallace When the COVID-19 threat is finally over (or significantly diminishes), what will normal work and life look like? It’s unrealistic to think that overnight we’ll suddenly revert to the way things were in the middle of 2019. An Associated Press article that appeared recently in the Chicago Tribune (Nations charting the path to normalcy) quoted several governments read more
2020
There is no question that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the workplace. I recently read a finding from Gartner that 88% of Americans who are currently working are working from home. For many, this is uncharted territory. I have worked from home for most of the last decade. Here are a few things, I have learned from experience. read more