How UAE’s HR managers are dealing with Omicron’s impact on the workforce – ArabianBusiness.com

How UAE’s HR managers are dealing with Omicron’s impact on the workforce – ArabianBusiness.com

Working remotely is back on the agenda for HR departments across the region as employees are forced to isolate, either through close contact or testing positive albeit the majority with mild or no symptoms.

While hospitals have been untroubled, due to high vaccination rates having the intended effect and the latest variant – omicron – proving to be much less severe, offices are having to retool with as seats are left vacant amid precautions.

The latter half of 2021 had seen the number of covid-19 cases in the UAE drop to less than a 100 a day and the country had largely returned to “the new normal” with companies requesting employees go back to the office or adopting a hybrid model of remote and in-person work.