A survey by research company Nature, conducted exclusively for The Australian Financial Review, found that 46 per cent of workers said working from home made it easier to interview for a job with a different employer. Coincidentally, a similar survey conducted in the United States by WFH Research in April had the same finding.

Some 42 per cent of respondents to the Australian survey said they had had at least one external job interview since March 2020 and 22 per cent said they had changed jobs at least once. Overall, 37 per cent of respondents had changed employer at least once since March 2020, when working from home became commonplace. Nearly one in 10 had changed jobs twice.

Rebecca Proctor joined lending and payments fintech WLTH in May as human resources manager from BHP, where she had been a contractor. She had three interviews with WLTH, of which two were virtual. The ease of the interview process prompted her apply for more roles, she said.

“I probably had about seven or eight interviews with different companies. The candidates have a lot more options at the moment and can afford to be a bit pickier, so [I got] that broad view of all these different companies,” Ms Proctor said.

Full Article: Australian Financial Review