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Flexible workers preferred in new economy

With shifting business practices, companies prefer employing a flexible and multi-talented workforce rather than those who possess just one area of expertise, according to a survey conducted by the consulting firm Accenture

Dylan Amirio (The Jakarta Post)
Thu, February 11, 2016

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Flexible workers preferred in new economy

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ith shifting business practices, companies prefer employing a flexible and multi-talented workforce rather than those who possess just one area of expertise, according to a survey conducted by the consulting firm Accenture.

Accenture'€™s Technology Vision 2016 survey of more than 3,100 businesses and IT executives worldwide also found leading companies that developed a '€œpeople first'€ approach were the ones that would prevail in today'€™s digital economy due to the unprecedented speed of technological development.

The pace of change, said the company, was dramatically disrupting the workforce dynamic of traditional companies as they had to keep up and capitalize on innovations by continually training, equipping and hiring employees with new or multiple skills.

Accenture Indonesia'€™s technological managing director Hamidjojo Surjotedjo explained that the trend for newer companies now was to have a flexible workforce capable of working in multiple disciplines. This was because new technologies would force the workforce to handle new challenges that were not familiar to traditionally-minded businesses.

He elaborated further that the people first approach had benefitted relatively new companies such as Airbnb, Go-Jek and Uber that had increased their profile beyond their traditional business equivalents in the hotel and taxi industries.

These companies, he added, had begun to incorporate a flexible workforce that was already connected to technological developments in business.

'€œPeople are the main component of new technologies. New technological innovations will not be implemented if they do not have a workforce that can adapt or partner with businesses that cannot keep up,'€ Hamid said on Wednesday.

Hamid added that business leaders ranked the requirement of '€œdeep expertise'€ in a specialized subject fifth on a list of priorities when it came to structuring workers, with 80 percent of respondents believing that their companies would definitely shift toward more flexible, multi-skilled employees over the next three years.

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