Pandemic Offers Solution to Tech Industry’s Big Brexit Problem

Pandemic Offers Solution to Tech Industry’s Big Brexit Problem

Pandemic Offers Solution to Tech Industry's Big Brexit Problem



(Bloomberg) “” The pandemic taught Britain's technology executives that business can still happen even if everyone's working from home. That lesson is providing a source of relief as the nation's year-end departure from the European Union looms.

A range of senior members of the industry say that having to fabricate remote workforces almost overnight in response to the coronavirus has transformed how they'll approach recruitment after Brexit. A rough consensus on this is emerging: executives will be kept local to headquarters, but most other roles will not.

This approach may lessen the need for work visas, something that could be a huge benefit to an industry where almost a fifth of its workers are born outside of Britain. Though remote working has limits, the prospect of being able to attract and keep a scattered workforce suggests the tech industry, and perhaps other service businesses such as recruiting, are in a stronger position to survive Brexit than they may have expected before the spread of Covid-19.

Previously, video-game developer Codemasters Group Holdings Plc "didn't like to have people working from far away,“ said Frank Sagnier, chief executive officer. Now, remote working isn't an issue in staffing