About Theodore Hanson
In a September 2021 CNBC interview, ASGN CEO Ted Hanson discussed the post-pandemic workforce, stating that "the future of work has changed" and that clients are "thinking differently" about it. He said the pandemic demonstrated that remote work is effective, noting that his company has "learned how to manage productivity" and "collaborate" remotely. Hanson reported that clients are now "open to access talent anywhere in the U.S.," not just in specific geographic locations, and described the opportunities for tech workers as "boundless."
Hanson also highlighted a surge in demand for specific IT roles over the prior six months, including project management, business analyst capabilities, cloud, information security, and data and business intelligence. He added that requests from clients for remote work had increased "over 300 percent." Hanson acknowledged that workers would return to offices "to some degree" but predicted a hybrid model going forward.
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Transcript (4 segments)
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Brian0:00
What is when you look at it as an IT staffing firm, what is the post-pandemic workforce going to look like?
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Theodore Hanson0:09
Thanks Brian, it's great to be with you today. If you really think about the future of work and post-pandemic, there's been structural change here. Before, the confines of where the client was located and the technology worker needed to be caused us not to utilize that workforce the way we could. While we'll not be remote forever, certainly we're almost 100% remote today. We'll be coming back into the office, and we're really going to be in a hybrid model. I think clients already are thinking differently about the future of work because the pandemic has taught us that remote works. We've learned how to manage productivity, collaborate, keep projects going, even get them done, and start new things. In the future, there's no question our clients are telling us they're open to access talent anywhere in the U.S., just not in the particular geography where they have their location. For the tech worker, the opportunities are boundless now. They might have looked at an opportunity in LA or New York or Dallas, but going forward they can think more broadly about where they want to apply their talents. So even though we're going to come back into the office to some degree, the future of work has changed.
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Brian1:38
Yeah, and there's also the types of IT industries, I would imagine Ted, have changed as well. Edge computing is now sort of the newest thing over cloud computing, which of course is still growing. If you were going to say to somebody, 'Okay, you want a career in IT, where are the jobs?' not geographically, but where are the jobs industry-wise going to be?
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Theodore Hanson2:01
Yeah, I think that's a great point, Brian. If you really think about what's most in demand today, we've seen an enormous surge over the last six months in five areas: project management, business analyst capabilities to run and keep these projects going, cloud, information security, data and business intelligence, and then just overall a willingness to do that on a remote basis. Anecdotally, requests for remote work today and for the future is up over 300 percent from our clients.
