The Redesigning of the Latin American Workplace
In this Expert Focus podcast, Leticia Ribeiro, a partner at Trench Rossi Watanabe, which operates a strategic co-operation agreement with Baker McKenzie, and Tatiana Garcés and Alberto Gonzalez-Torres, partners at Baker Mckenzie, discuss trending employment topics across the region such as returning to work, the home office, hybrid work systems, and health and safety issues such as vaccinations.
The importance of flexibility in the modern workplace
Flexibility is the new workplace currency. As a consequence, one of the key emerging issues for employers across Latin America, and certainly across the globe, has been workforce redesign.
How COVID-19 changed employers beliefs about remote work
There is no doubt that the pandemic has impacted the workplace landscape. Before this new reality hit, remote work was the exception to the office-based rule and was often frowned upon by employers across different industries, because of the lack of direct control and supervision of their employees it offered. To the surprise of many, this new model was not only successful, but in certain cases had a significant positive impact on productivity. As a consequence, not only have there been many changes in the employment law landscape across Latin America, but this new flexibility has been key for many companies when acquiring or retaining talent.
A new employment paradigm
Organisations and employees alike are eager to capitalise on the opportunities offered by technological advances and shifts in working culture. The corporate world is witnessing a significant evolution in the types of work people do, and where and how it gets done, as work moves beyond traditional paradigms.
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