Businesses are flipping the dial on remote work, adopting office-first policies to recruit workers sick of working from home and keen to forge connections.
But administration worker Sharmeen Masood, 30, says a full-time office culture is exactly what she wanted.
She started at property investment planning company Maple Property Group in April after a job hunt that had her fielding multiple offers. The group’s office-first culture was the clincher.Maple chief executive Beau Arfi introduced the full-time office culture in February. He admits the decision may have cost him some quality hires, but believes the people who have joined have been the right cultural fit.
Dovetail is clear about its culture when recruiting, which Mr Humphrey believes leads to some “screening themselves out”. “That actually helps us because we get the people who actually miss that kind of culture, and in my experience, it’s a lot of people who are highly motivated, who want to learn from others at work, who are quite social, and bring a good vibe and energy to work.”Using an office-first strategy as a recruiting tool is not widespread, with most businesses attempting to instil hybrid policies, said Sarah McCann-Bartlett, chief executive of the Australian HR Institute.
And businesses also need to ensure they’re not casting too small a net by introducing office-first policies, Ms McCann-Bartlett said. “Don’t forget that we also want to drive diversity in our workplaces, and ... providing flexibility in our workplaces does support more diversity as well.”
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