6 Workforce Trends You’ll See in 2023

6 Workforce Trends You’ll See in 2023

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1. Remote Work

A recent study found remote opportunities were up 4%, and researchers project 25% of all positions will be remote in the next year. Those who got a taste of working from home have no desire to return to the office. Workforce trends seem to point to more remote work. People like the convenience of not commuting to and from the 

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1. Remote Work

office. They also save money on fuel, lunch out and professional clothing. Takeaway: If your company can function via remote work, allow employees some flexibility with where they work.

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2. Focus on Employee Experience

Have you ever missed out on someone you thought might do an excellent job, but they lacked the required education? The labor shortage seems to have created a workforce trend where companies look at experience and not just education. Someone who has been in the industry and done the job or a similar one might actually be 

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2. Focus on Employee Experience

better prepared to step into the role and take it to the next level. Book learning only goes so far. Takeaway: Your dream candidate might be one with the training and the experience to fill the role. In reality, you may have to choose one or the other.

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3. Flexible Schedules

COVID-19 hasn’t fully gone away. When people have children or family members with the illness, the entire household must quarantine.  Add the stress of being a parent and your child goes to e-learning because several children in the classroom are ill. One way you can keep workers struggling to balance family and work is by giving them 

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3. Flexible Schedules

more flexible schedules. Many tasks can be completed at any time. Companies are jumping onto workforce trends, such as flex time, shifting schedules and workshare programs. Takeaway: Talk to your employees about their work hours. Is anything not meshing well with their lives? How might it be fixed?

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4. Better Company Culture

Younger workers are demanding the work/life balance and a positive work environment. If employers don’t create a nurturing environment, they leave and find another position. Out of all the workforce trends, this one may be most beneficial to both staff and owners. Creating a more positive company culture benefits 

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4. Better Company Culture

companies as well. They wind up with loyal employees. Churn rates drop, and since it costs companies money to recruit and train new workers, the business saves money. Productivity often rises with an enhanced company culture. Takeaway: An excellent company culture benefits everyone.

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5. Unique Perks

The latest reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the separation rate little changed, with about 4.2 million people quitting in June 2022. At the height of the pandemic, around 47 million people left, were laid off or retired from their jobs. The number doesn’t seem to be improving as some thought it might. Instead, there are still 

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5. Unique Perks

10.7 million job openings and an increase in the open positions at larger corporations. How can a smaller business compete with the wages and benefits of a larger company? One thing you can do is offer unique perks the bigger guys might not think of having. Create a snack space, offer extra paid time off (PTO), give 

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5. Unique Perks

employees time to volunteer for their pet projects and offer things such as education reimbursement and vacation bonuses. Takeaway: Find perks that are unique. Ask your employees for ideas. Let them choose between Option A or Option B and then later give them both as you can afford it.

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6. More Automation

As machines get smarter, more companies turn to computers to automate various tasks. Anything repetitive will likely lose the staff member and gain automation. Local fast food places now use kiosks to take orders, for example. How can your company fill the worker shorter but still hire people and pay them living wages? Automate the things 

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6. More Automation

that are repetitive and leave your employees to the work of seeking new customers and coming up with fresh ideas. Takeaway: Machines and automation are on the rise, but you’ll still need employees to fill open positions.

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