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At the beginning of 2020, Gen Z increasingly enters the workforce and most of the companies are hiring Gen Z candidates to increase the company’s talent pool. When recruiting Gen Z employees, companies need to think strategically, and they need to come up with new strategies to attract those talents because Gen Z’s workplace needs are very much different when comparing to other generations. Gen Z is a generation who are lived their life surrounding technology and their information literacy is at a higher level. Therefore, organisations need to change their outdated recruiting methods and company offerings to attract those talents. Since Gen Z employees cannot be motivated by unwanted physical things, organisations need to understand their needs and motivators. Here are some of the elements which Gen Z employees are looking from a company before taking their decision to join.

As a result of the global pandemic, remote working trends are rising all around the world. Over five months, most of the companies are practising remote working culture and they have identified various advantages that come with remote working. Most of the individuals and companies are able to increase their productivity and profits because of the remote working culture. In addition, this culture helps employees to effectively spend their working hours without getting distracted. After the pandemic majority of the companies hiring remote workers for their virtual teams. According to the studies, 44% of the employees are more likely to happy and productive in the remote working culture. However, some employees are not used to work in a remote environment and recent studies found reasons how the companies are failing because of the remote working mistakes. The biggest mistake is using the wrong remote working techniques and technologies. Companies need to provide employees with technical assistance to get the maximum outcome from the remote working culture. To get the maximum outcome from the remote working culture employees and virtual teams can follow below-mentioned strategies.

Most of the companies are now moving from physical offices to virtual working environments because of the global pandemic. Majority of the organisations are benefiting from the virtual working environment since it helps to decrease operational cost and increase productivity of the workforce. State of Remote Work report 2019 mentioned that most managers are facing the problem of low employee engagement and satisfaction between co-workers in remote working environments. However, with the improvement of the technology, a vast amount of communication and engagement tools has come to the market, which can be used to keep employees engaged and satisfied. Since workforce trend is now moving towards virtual working, managers need to identify benefits, which comes with virtual offices. 

Retail is an industry that took a massive hit due to Covid-19. This was one industry that had to react fast in order to sustain and stay relevant and definitely had to change their business strategies. With lockdowns and curfews implemented by many countries, retailers had the responsibility of getting goods to their customers with a smooth flow.