Maria Boldor, Horvath Romania: “I don’t see a future where everybody is working from home”

“We always aim to make sure that our consultants feel motivated and empowered, and their sense of purpose is achieved, but also give them constant development opportunities, independent working and so on.

From the customer perspective, for example, we are doing every year some studies with our CEOs and CFOs. The idea of a new risk emerged from our last study. It’s not about inflation anymore, it’s not about the war in Ukraine anymore, it’s about the war for talents,” Maria Boldor, Principal, Horvath Romania said during People Empowering Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.

“In our last study, 85 percent of the participants mentioned that the biggest risk that they see for the future business development is the shortage of skilled employees. I think that is a red flag for all industries to look inside their organizations and think about new ways of working, initiatives to inspire and empower their employees. At the end of the day, the fluctuation of personnel is the topic to be considered.

The key to creating a safe, empowering environment for the employees is to create it together with the employees. It shouldn’t come from top to down. From my experience, this is about creating it from bottom to up together with the employees so that they can really feel they contribute to this change story.

Each organization and each team need to figure out a model that is working best. During the pandemic I went to the office because I wanted to separate the two lives: professional and personal. I see a trend of coming back to the office. Most of my clients are somehow in a grey area where they don’t know how to react. It’s an adjustment phase that is going on now, depending on the industry of course.

I don’t see a future where everybody is working from home, I expect a work-life balance for the employees.”

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