Having spent many years in executive search, I have had the pleasure of placing people in all manner of locations, nationally and internationally. I have also witnessed to the increasing mobility of professional people over the last couple of decades.
Not long ago (at the start of the pandemic), I wrote a piece that looked at how, in some areas of technology, we were seeing a return to cottage industry in the UK. Describing how, in disciplines like development, forward thinking leaders were enabling scarce and much needed talent to work from anywhere, whilst contributing as part of a team. It had become almost impossible to maintain any kind of critical mass of development talent, so this innovative way of working was allowing businesses to grow, and deliver product, regardless of location. By their very nature, Technical and IT departments have always been ahead of the curve when it comes to remote working, as they have evolved to underpin global businesses and historically have embrace outsourced/offshore models of service.
However, any leader in a geographically dispersed business will know what it takes to operate in this way… so what’s changed?
Norman Broadbent plc (LON:NBB) is a leading Professional Services firm offering five interrelated Talent Acquisition & Advisory Services: Board & Leadership/Executive Search, Senior Interim Management, Research & Insight, Leadership Consulting & Assessment, and executive level Recruitment solutions.
