Why Recruiters Are Struggling To Get Talent For Companies With 6-Day Work Week
Companies with six-day week culture are struggling to hire fresh talent as a majority of candidates find it to be a deal-breaker. With the COVID-19 pandemic, companies adapted work-from-home or hybrid models to manage their workflow.
The new setup allowed executives to strike a work-life balance, and now at least 40 per cent of candidates looking for a job switch ask about full work days, per week, compared to 10-15 per cent earlier, reported The Times of India.
James Agarwal, MD of BTI Executive Search, said that candidates don't understand the need to work 6 days a week with organisations moving to hybrid ways of working.
"When we approach any CXO candidates with a 6-day work week job offer, they are shocked," he said, adding that such companies were set to lose a larger pool of talent if they did not modify their work culture.
A majority of the candidates assume a 5-day work week to be a given when they participate in the recruitment of any organisation, the report added.
"At least 95 per cent of the candidates want to join companies with a 5-day work week. As a result, what companies with a 6-day work week would get is the leftover talent," Joseph Devasia, MD of recruitment firm Antal International, was quoted as saying.
Headhunters have said that the report stated that if even a candidate is ready to switch to a 6-day work week, it is likely to be only for a short-term career or monetary gains.
The preference for a 5-day work week, even at the cost of monetary losses, sometimes can be linked to the post-pandemic realisation of the importance of mental health and personal time.
A C-Suite Survey by Colliers and Awfis showed that 53 per cent of employees favoured a hybrid work setup that included a combination of work-from-home and office time.
The survey said that with companies asking employees to return to the office, only 35 per cent of the organisation had between 75 and 100 per cent of employees back at the physical office.