Talent management is totally different from how it looked only two years ago, with some level of remote working becoming essential in many industries, rather than the nice-to-have option it was before the Covid crisis.
The pandemic-driven upheaval has led many businesses to consider creating a dedicated role with responsibility for defining how such flexibility should work – now and in the future – and the best way to achieve this.
At the end of last year, Annie Dean became Facebook’s director of remote work. She told delegates at a conference hosted by GitLab in June 2021 that her job was to ensure that “the playing field stays level and that every person can meaningfully participate”. GitLab itself was ahead of the curve in this respect, appointing its own head of remote work, Darren Murph, in 2019.