Even the most reluctant firms and staff have had to make home working a reality – have attitudes changed as a result?
Firms across the UK have had to move to a home working model wherever possible in recent months, due to the coronavirus pandemic. This will have included many who previously thought that home working wouldn’t suit the needs of their business. Five months in felt like the right time to catch up with two very different organisations to ask how they were getting on.
We caught up with Jill Whittaker, Managing Director of HIT Training, and Heather Cracknell, Director of People Development at Serocor Solutions, about their companies’ experiences with working from home.
Serocor is a recruiter specialising in STEM and director-level roles, and as such is a very sales-driven business. “Recruitment can be a bit old school” says Heather, “but we had been making a slow and steady move towards flexible working since I joined seven years ago. We introduced variable hours so people could start and finish at different tim