Will the need for remote contractors increasing exponentially due to COVID-19...?
Kai Crayford
Founder @ Austin Werner | Digital Assets, Blockchain, Web3, Finance, Insurance
The demand for a distributed team and a remote workforce is more relevant than ever now. How do you hit your business objectives when permanent hiring is clearly going to slow down during this uncertain and challenging period? Business-critical projects still need to be delivered; business objectives still have to be met, but while COVID-19 is among us then adjustments will need to be made…
If you are a CTO, CIO, CDO, Program / Project Lead, conversations must be happening internally at present
- "Are we going to deliver our objectives?"
- "What is the impact to the business if we miss our objectives?"
- "Will investors/sponsors/stakeholders be worried if we slow our technical delivery down?"
- "Do we need more help delivering at this time?"
- "Are we structured well enough to bring in a remote workforce if required?"
- “Do we have a disaster recovery or business continuity plan in place?”
All these questions are relevant and the likely scenario for businesses is that they will need additional resources during this time. Permanent hiring will inevitably slow down dramatically unless there is a large pool of talent immediately available who are looking for permanent work (which there isn’t). At Austin Werner, we continue to source the best technical talent and we are committed to delivering experts into businesses that need additional support.
We have spent the last 4 weeks engaging experienced remote experts across the globe. These individuals can perform in technically challenging roles while having a solid understanding of what is required from a remote workforce. They have expertise in working within distributed teams and can seamlessly integrate and add an immediate impact to the team.
Please reach out to us if you are asking the above questions, as we are happy to set up a chat (via zoom :) ) to discuss your business needs and design a way forward to help.
Keep safe, keep washing those hands, plow on and help your community in any way you can.
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3 年Kai, thanks for sharing!
Data analyst, Technical Project Manager, Product Manager, IT Infrastructure consultant
4 年It seems like, it would increase the demand. But, it seems improbable that it will change people immediately towards that kind if work force. We are not new to remote work culture, but it did not pick up for many reasons, mostly involved with human behavior. I know that big service industry companies, who are delivering projects across the world in all kind of xxx-shore models who won't allow the team members to work from home. They would force employees to relocate to another cities (their delivery centers) because they are ready to have different team members in different cities(in same country). But they commit to customer that they can deliver projects across the globe. Due to such situation, it may force industry towards remote work, but I think it will move back immediately this internal pressure is taken off. Same way the car slows down when you take the foot off the gas. Another person already commented on how he sees things not so rosy and I would agree with him
Freelance Web Developer
4 年Yes I am ??