Our panellists agreed that offering more flexibility in working practices could assist make the sector extra engaging – both to millennials beginning their careers and to the brightest and finest senior hires coming from outdoors the sector. This is probably unsurprising; in a report launched last week by Airbnb on the ‘Future of Work’, more versatile working options got here out as the most important want of nearly 80{1b0827ce82692f5ad98604510a29129a5d6bf3afe205680583f8b1b0b3af0de7} of respondents – even more so, whenever you appeared on the outcomes for millennials. Previous PwC research has additionally highlighted the influence of versatile working and boosting gender range.

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