Talent | Can smart working flexibility help candidate attraction and retention?

Attracting candidates requires an emphasis on showcasing an attractive brand, or harbouring engagement with candidate-centric content, even rethinking how you facilitate bespoke working as part of your offering to become a more attractive employer.

In this insight, we look to whether ‘smart working’ is a viable strategy to attract and retain candidates.

Over the past two years, many businesses have opted for either a fully remote or hybrid model of working and look set to continue this model. Added to the mix of flexible working is the topic of smart or deskless working, which sees employees make their own choices about where they work from and what suits them best. This agile way of working isn’t reliant on a specific physical workspace or set time or working. Instead, it is about individual choices to complete the goal. But does this work in reality?

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