Software program firm Atlassian believes its versatile work philosophy will give it a aggressive benefit in a good labour market because it targets employees exterior the most important capital cities to fill greater than 1000 new native jobs within the subsequent 12 months.
After pushing for faster entry to Australia’s job marketplace for high-paid expert migrants on the authorities’s jobs summit in August, Atlassian co-chief government Scott Farquhar stated most of its 1032 new analysis and improvement roles throughout Australia and New Zealand can be crammed by folks already in Australia.
Scott Farquhar’s Atlassian is selling its versatile work credentials by doing a tour of the east coast of Australia in a van.
“It may be a minority are available in who apply from abroad and need to come work in Australia, however we expect the overwhelming majority of [the new jobs] might be individuals who stay in Australia,” he stated. “We should always simply be capable to discover 1032 folks to come back work for us.”
The know-how sector might want to fill 260,000 new jobs within the subsequent 4 years to handle a looming expertise scarcity, the Tech Council of Australia estimates. Farquhar stated that, in a good labour market, his firm’s philosophy of permitting employees to work from anyplace would give his firm a aggressive benefit over others with stricter workplace necessities.
“Nearly half of the employees we’ve employed within the final 12 months stay greater than two hours from an Atlassian workplace,” he stated. “So our capability to draw nice expertise, regardless of the place they’re on the earth, is approach increased than any firm that claims ‘I want folks to come back into the workplace sooner or later every week’,” he stated.
“We’re already at report low unemployment, so there’s not folks sitting there, twiddling their thumbs, ready to hitch the tech business. We’re going to must retrain folks from different industries to do this.”
The corporate is selling its versatile work credentials by doing a tour of the east coast of Australia in a van. Farquhar, who labored out of a motor house whereas on sabbatical final 12 months, stated the concept was to point out folks throughout Australia they will work in high-paying tech roles with out residing in Sydney or Melbourne.
“Folks don’t [always] need to stay in an 8 million individual metropolis like Sydney the place the child’s sport run on the weekend is an hour-and-a-half spherical journey,” he stated. “They will work in Maroochydore or Mt Gambier, or they will work in a motor house, and so they can have an awesome job.”
Farquhar stated the corporate’s new Atlassian Central headquarters in Sydney’s Haymarket, on account of open in 2027, would offer a hub for workers preferring to work in an workplace, and for the corporate to convene for devoted planning occasions “4 or 5 instances a 12 months”.
