COVID-19 has definitely turned our year upside down. Whilst most of us are tired of hearing about it, in this post we take a humorous look at some of the key phrases and daily habits that 2020 has bequeathed to us.

With COVID-19 bringing about a permanent shift into not only the way businesses do work but the way people live, we can safely say the future world will be a very different place. Here are 11 interesting, but highly probable, predictions for the Future of Work from team TalentDesk.io.

260+ business leaders have responded to our Future of Work Survey 2020, providing us with valuable insights into future workforce trends and in-demand systems for remote work. Find out what these are as we prepare for a tumultuous shift in the world of work, and its domino effect on life as we know it.

So first came the Herman Miller designed cubicle office, followed by its younger and much cooler co-working sibling, and then came the remote working revolution, accelerated by a worldwide pandemic. Could the next step be an entirely digitised set-up where people can work from anywhere they choose?

We chat with our client, Mauricio Franco, the External Partner Manager at HR consultancy atrain GmbH. In this case study, Mauricio details how using TalentDesk.io has transformed the way atrain GmbH remotely manage and align their distributed teams. Read on to find out more!

Find out what it’s like to manage a remote team of freelancers & employees based out of Ukraine, Athens, the Greek Islands & Cambridge, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world tries to adapt to its biggest structural shift in decades, we chat to our very own CTO, Sotiris, for some tips & insights, as remote working has always been the norm for him & his team.

Our mission as a team, now more than ever, is to enable businesses to rethink how they work, transforming their workforce to remote, distributed and flexible, and more efficient. But in order to work better as a team, we realised that we need to work on our positivity as individuals too. Here are five tips to help you create opportunities through COVID-19.

From startups to large companies, freelancers are helping to kickstart projects, fill in skills gaps and assist in company growth. But the question is: who within the organisation should have responsibility for hiring them?

HR departments need to accept that freelancers work differently and likewise, that the systems required to manage the engagement process are also different. This need for acceptance is becoming more pressing considering that more organisations are using outsourced staff.