{"id":531230,"date":"2021-10-22T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=531230"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:23:57","slug":"business-talk-georgina-barrick-on-the-post-pandemic-workplace-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business-opinion\/531230\/business-talk-georgina-barrick-on-the-post-pandemic-workplace-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Georgina Barrick on the post-pandemic workplace in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgina Barrick has 25 years of recruitment and executive search experience and is the managing director at Network Contracting Solutions &#8211; AdvTech Resourcing\u2019s Contracting Division.<\/p>\n<p>She leads a team of professional specialist contracting consultants who match clients with the best contracting talent in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Barrick discusses how the pandemic has fundamentally shifted what the normal workplace looks like.<\/p>\n<p>She outlines six trends that she has picked up from the new direction in which the workplace is heading, and explains how a hybrid work model has become the default approach.<\/p>\n<p>Barrick cautions that in the short term, companies need to brace for a higher turnover of staff and a move towards a non-permanent workforce.<\/p>\n<p>She also gives insight into the impact that the pandemic has on mental health, especially in the workplace, and talks about the emigration problem South Africa is facing.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NK4-eHrY-bI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruitment expert, Georgina Barrick discusses how the pandemic has fundamentally shifted what the normal workplace looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":531234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7286,15578,4588,10865],"class_list":["post-531230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-opinion","tag-advtech","tag-business-talk","tag-employment","tag-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531230"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531306,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531230\/revisions\/531306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}