Many firms in the UAE are utilizing the pandemic-induced switching to remote work to enhance the diversity of their technical workforce. Firms have introduced initiatives and enhanced the previous ones, mainly to diversify technical talent. In association with the most commonly cited programs are those that include remote work positions and remote interviewing. The global pandemic and its changes in how tasks are done offer an unusual opportunity for a milestone. Firms need people who have diversified thinking, can resolve issues in enhanced ways, and develop better solutions for the firm’s business. Still, the conventional methods in which firms discover talent, involving internal referral programs, sometimes reinforce the status quo and university recruitment programs. Briefly, firms require to question their general assumptions about diversity, involving an attitude that sometimes lies hidden within the complicated matrix of structural blockades; they are not recruiting diversified applicants because such applicants are not qualified. It is not about lowering the standard; it is about broadening the pool.
Case – Reference no. 421-0092-1
Authors: Muhammad Usman Tariq
Published by: Abu Dhabi School of Management
Published in: 2021
Length: 11 pages
Topics: Diversification; Talent; Recruitment; Remote; Workplace
