Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The importance of being in the office for building culture.

Name: The importance of being in the office for building culture.
Uploaded: 2025-05-07T16:01:21+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that cultivating a strong workplace culture and a positive environment is severely hampered when a significant…

7 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that cultivating a strong workplace culture and a positive environment is severely hampered when a significant portion of the team works remotely. He emphasizes that recruitment professionals are drawn to the field because they enjoy interacting with people, yet many employees now prefer isolated home setups, which he describes as boring and unproductive for learning. While acknowledging that remote work can still yield output, he contends that the optimal model is to spend the majority of time—around 80%—in the office. This physical presence enables peer-to-peer learning, mentorship, and the organic exchange of ideas that are essential for building and maintaining a vibrant company culture.

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Building a culture and having a positive environment is really difficult when half the people aren't there. We all came into recruitment because we all like people, and yet agencies, businesses, and people are actually going, I want to sit at home in a corner watching my, you know, teletext and being on the phone. It's just boring, absolutely boring. I don't think you learn anything. But people can work from home, by the way, and they can produce. As an overall, I think being in the office around your peers learning from the next person or people learning from you is what it should be, what it should be, at least 80% of the time anyway.