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Megan Alexander: Robert Half recruitment expert on whether working from home reduces promotion opportunities · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: If you're looking for a promotion, you should probably stop
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  Speaker 2: working from home. A survey has been done by this
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  Speaker 2: recruitment company, Robert Half. They've survey Kiwi employees and found
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight percent of us reckon there's a correlation between
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  Speaker 2: being in the office and then getting a promotion. Meghan
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  Speaker 2: Alexander from Robert Half is with us a Meghan, Hi, heither,
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  Speaker 2: how are you very well? Thank you?
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  Speaker 3: Are they right? Do you have to turn up to
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  Speaker 3: get the job?
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's definitely a perception of that, and so I
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  Speaker 4: guess is that out of sight, out of mind mentality.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can agree or disagree, but I guess a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the feedback that comes back from the employer
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  Speaker 4: side is that you can do tasks at home, but
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  Speaker 4: you can't add to the culture of an organization. You
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  Speaker 4: can't necessarily collaborate and build relationships, and those are key
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  Speaker 4: parts to getting promotions.
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  Speaker 3: Is it that or is it actually that it just
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  Speaker 3: looks late as well.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I think some people can absolutely do their job
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  Speaker 4: from home. I think it does come down to job dependent,
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  Speaker 4: you know what your tasks are. But if you're looking
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  Speaker 4: for career and climbing the ladder, you know, relationship building
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  Speaker 4: is pretty critical, and that's pretty hard when you're sitting
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  Speaker 4: at home not talking to anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty four This is what I think is bizarre.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fifty four percent of the people you guys surveyed
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  Speaker 2: said they would come into the office more if they
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  Speaker 2: were told by their bosses that being in the office
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  Speaker 2: would lead to a promotion.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, surely you should just read the room. You
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  Speaker 3: don't need to be told.
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  Speaker 4: Well, and look, employers are telling staff that they need
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  Speaker 4: to get back to offices. You know, there's been a
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  Speaker 4: very clear and distinct change in the last eighteen months,
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  Speaker 4: and so employers are really demanding this and making people
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  Speaker 4: come back. So you know, and we did a comparable
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  Speaker 4: survey in Australia and interestingly enough, seventy four percent of
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  Speaker 4: Australian employers believe the same thing, that there is a
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  Speaker 4: correlation between promotion and being in the office. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: if both parties are saying this, you would think common
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  Speaker 4: sense would.
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  Speaker 5: Prevail, and yet we never cease to amaze and it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't prevail. Oh, Thank you, Meghan, I really apprecient a
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  Speaker 5: Megan Alexander, Robert Harp Listen. It is as simple as
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  Speaker 5: do I need to explain this to you. It's as
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  Speaker 5: simple as this.
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  Speaker 3: If you can't be fact getting out of your dressing
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  Speaker 3: gown Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, you're not going
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  Speaker 3: to get a promotion. Are you?
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