Pandemic Offers Solution to Tech Industry’s Big Brexit Problem
- Shift to remote working suggests many visas may not be needed
- Employers still need ‘that personal connection’ with staff
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The pandemic taught Britain’s technology executives that business can still happen even if everyone’s working from home. That lesson is providing a source of relief as the nation’s year-end departure from the European Union looms.
A range of senior members of the industry say that having to fabricate remote workforces almost overnight in response to the coronavirus has transformed how they’ll approach recruitment after Brexit. A rough consensus on this is emerging: executives will be kept local to headquarters, but most other roles will not.