How 2020 Pivoted Perceptions of Hiring Global Offshore Teams

The opening year of this decade has been one of lockdown happy hours, hand washing alarms, and face masks as a fashion accessory. And, at least to begin with, the start of 2021 doesn’t look a whole lot different. So what else has changed? The perception people have of building global offshore teams to help their organisation achieve strategic objectives.

Accelerated attitude shifts

A global mindset shift was already occurring in the latter part of the 2010s as organisations increasingly looked towards distributed global teams and cross-border collaboration as a norm. With cutting-edge tools at their disposal, companies were seeing the practical and commercial benefits of global collaboration more than ever, and this evolution was further sped up by the necessity brought about by the pandemic.

Digital transformation also ramped up this year, as businesses sought to diversify their customer offerings to remain competitive and keep up to speed with rivals doing the same. As a result, the requirement for top talent didn’t slow down and indeed recruitment agencies in the United Kingdom said that demand for developers had actually increased this year.

Increased focus on skills over cost

For quite some time, when one spoke of building global teams there was an immediate focus on labour cost, and not on the added skills and value, such a setup can bring to an organisation. It was seen as an ‘other’ team, somehow distinct and separate from the existing development structure.

We discussed this labour-cost focus in our downloadable post-pandemic report as “an outdated mindset that’s being moved aside by fresh ideas”. Well, in the six months since publication, it isn’t being moved aside, it now has been.

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