Businesses with dynamic working environments are now in a position where they can attract and retain any talent, more diverse talent, and talent from all across the globe, said Alvina Antar, the chief information officer at digital identity firm"People want to come to the office to engage and collaborate," Antar said during Insider's recent virtual event,"How Emerging Technologies Influence the Future of Work," which took place on Thursday, January 5.
"The reason why we have issues with retention is people don't feel connected to the company that they're a part of because many, many employees haven't even met their coworkers," Antar said."And so now the location is a place to bond and create meaning.
"Something that we're starting to hear back from our customers is technologies they want to invest in, not just in the context of providing customer benefits, but also for employee purposes," he said. "While we monitor the economic climate, I fully anticipate — especially as 5G wireless technologies get deployed even further and faster — there's going to be some new exciting use cases that we're going to go after and solve for our customers with unique solutions."