Prof Calie Pistorius: Corporates must approach empIoyee location requirements very differently - or lose their best talent

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Heavyweight academic and innovation specialist Prof Calie Pistorius, has been juggling his own tech consulting business with helping the University of Stellenbosch launch its successful online-only engineering management degree - something which would have been inconceivable pre-Covid. In this podcast with BizNews.com's Alec Hogg, the widely travelled former vice chancellor at Pretoria and Hull universities shares his insights on the new world of work, and urges corporations to take a very different approach to their policies about where employees are physically located. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Jul 2022 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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