Last week Joydeep Hor, Founder and Managing Principal of People
+ Culture Strategies ("PCS"), hosted a
webinar – "The Sticky Space: The Current Employment
Landscape". Joydeep shared his insights about the current
employment landscape and the key issues and challenges
organisations are facing after almost two and a half years of
responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The last two years
Joydeep first reflected on the past two years and the obstacles
that organisations have had to overcome. Joydeep commented on the
uncertainty that initially arose in the wake of COVID-19, as the
experiment of working from home ("WFH")
was forced upon employers. As this experiment wore on,
organisations and employees were faced with the challenge of
engineering social continuity to maintain a semblance of normality
amidst the on-again and off-again restrictions. In 2021, the push
for Australians to get vaccinated was seen as the way out of the
pandemic and, in 2022, organisations now