The pandemic has shone a spotlight on the level of their preparedness, especially on risk mitigation and dynamism in workplace culture. The biggest question is whether local businesses are flexible enough to maintain productivity. You will hear employers saying productivity will be affected negatively when you put employees under a flexible schedule or better still, allow them to work from home. Lack of job-tracking technologies will also emerge in the conversation; employers will say it is difficult to manage employees’ output remotely. This shows how most businesses are yet to adopt technologies to cope with changing dynamics in the job market.

Source: The Star March 23, 2020 00:56 UTC