The concept of workforce culture comes with the idea that many of us have been working from home for the past two years.
The pandemic has broken through cultural and technological barriers that prevented remote work in construction expediting a structural shift that was already in motion in the past few years. The way we work, where we work, and how we work have changed irreversibly.
A construction business’ greatest value lies in its people. However, construction businesses have always struggled with demand instability when it comes to construction professionals during projects lifecycles.
The notion around construction is that it is an industry of “Hire and Fire”. This notion, subsequently, led to frustration resulting in an increase of wasted resources and efforts. It’s a never-ending issue.
How do you get the right person on the right project at the right time and for the right period? Although this seems like a simple problem, it can pose complex challenges for companies worldwide, and businesses end up with project delays and cost overrun.
In the region and around the world the built industry is reshaping itself, slowly but steadily, to be more agile, digital, and remote.
Workforce talent shortage
In a recent Deloitte survey, 52% of construction executives indicate their organisation is facing a severe talent shortage. The impact of not filling job openings can negatively affect construction firms in more ways than one, including project delays and cancellations, projects being scaled back, inability to respond to market needs, losing project bids, and failing to innovate, among others.
An agile workforce would be the solution to the talent problem facing construction businesses. In fact, a project demands agility above all. Access to an agile workforce means the possibility to scale teams up or down and fill skill gaps on-demand.
Outsourcing specific tasks to freelancers is one of the key trends for 2022 because it improves productivity, business sustainability, and profitability. However, are construction firms ready to adopt the agile mindset? How are they sourcing and managing independent professionals/freelancers?
Marketplace for top construction talents
CONSTAL, a marketplace for top construction talents that enables companies to scale up their teams on-demand, is enabling agility and a hybrid workforce in the market. An AI-powered platform that makes hiring professionals easy, transparent, and agile – all for 50% of the price of traditional firms.
Having a hybrid workforce (employees and independent professionals) is considered a key for companies’ success. Independent professionals allow businesses to manage wages costs while ensuring that deadlines are met and recruitment costs are kept down.
However, there are several interconnected phases in construction, and from the field to the office, collaboration is critical. Having a hybrid workforce used to make communication more challenging, not to mention the difficulties in managing outsourced contracts.
CONSTAL, is laying the infrastructure to freelance in construction, offering an all-in-one centralised solution that covers hiring, collaboration, and payroll. Thereby creating a framework for flexibility as a launchpad to the future of work.
The UAE’s new labour law, the introduction of DAFZA’s Talent Pass license in January – and the freelance visa last September helped facilitate the process.
Traditional workforces lack agility and dynamism; the future belongs to organisations that create a flexible, hybrid workforce that is able to change, as competition and new technological innovation challenge the industry.
In fact, the default expectations around work have changed. The traditional boundaries that influenced how these companies think about and source talent are breaking down, let’s embrace the hybrid workforce.
CONSTAL is committed to connecting top construction industry talents with diverse clients across the globe. The platform was started by industry experts who are disrupting the traditional way we work, to become more agile, more efficient, more instant, and digital.
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