Over the past year, the pandemic has highlighted many advantages of remote work, accelerating a trend that many career experts say was already happening

As businesses adapt and learn from this remote work experiment, many are altering their long-term plans to accommodate this way of working. How?

A gradual return to work: Survey respondents estimate that 26.7% of the workforce will be fully remote by the end of 2021, suggesting that workers will slowly continue to come back to the office.

Remote work is getting easier: 68% of hiring managers say remote work is going more smoothly now compared to the start of the pandemic.

Managers are thrilled about fewer meetings: 70% of hiring managers say the reduction of non-essential meetings has worked out better for their companies than they expected. 60% say increased schedule flexibility and 54% cite no commute as aspects of remote work that have worked better than expected.

The rise in freelancing

Organizations are facing a talent shortage. It noted that 58% of hiring managers feel “stretched to capacity,” and 61% of teams “lack people or skills to complete their work,” which has led to delayed or canceled projects.

Now that employers are more comfortable with remote work they are more adapt to tap freelancers to fill talent gaps. Companies in many sectors are facing fast-moving challenges in this digital economy and they have to scale quickly in a way they may have not done before. That’s where hiring freelance talent comes in.

As you will see, working physically in the company is not something necessary. It has been shown that remote work can be done well. So you can hire employees no matter where they are, meaning you can hire people in different parts of the world.

How? You should contact us! Roots EOR brings your company a turn-key solution to allocate staff abroad to be compliant with local labor requirements without forming a local legal structure.