Remote work is more than 40 years old and is assigned to scientist Jack Nilles, who worked from home on a communication system for NASA and who proposed the term "telecommunication" as a tool to free traffic, take advantage of renewable resources and save time. Since then and until today, with the advent of the coronavirus pandemic, this new work paradigm has led thousands of companies to offer remote work as an option for their employers and collaborators.
Especially in the area of the information technology industry, the prospects are auspicious. According to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), by 2022 more than 1.2 million developers will be required in Latin America, since the emergency caused by COVID-19 accelerated digital transformation processes in all sectors to give continuity to the operation of business through remote work.
In this way, the health emergency creates an opportunity not only in the way of working, but also in the priorities and skills that are required, as well as the profiles that will be most in demand. According to a Randstad survey, those most in demand will be those with expertise in e-commerce, with 53% of mentions; IT support staff, with 42%; programmers and developers, with 37%; and cybersecurity specialists, with 35%.
This means that talent linked to the technological world will have an increase in job vacancies in Chile and throughout the region for programmers and professionals with knowledge in automation, process robotics, artificial intelligence and business intelligence, among others.
David Rabin, vice president of Lenovo, believes that the pandemic "will leave a permanent change in how corporations and knowledge workers work."
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According to him, the pandemic revealed the need for collaboration tools for hardware and software, because, in general, tools as massive as video meeting platforms have been the most frequent trend at this juncture.
On the other hand, Harvard University estimated that telecommuting will increase geographic diversity, attracting new hires from different regions or cities.
Technology rents have been on a constant rise and no change in trend has been observed due to the pandemic, the social outbreak and other causes that did affect professionals from other sectors of the industry.
Although it is important for the country to improve job creation in more traditional sectors, we should not stop paying attention to the labor market opportunities in this industry. Chile has an ecosystem of dynamic digital talent and entrepreneurship with very good prospects, which must be combined with incentives from the public and private sectors so that our digital professionals can not only help Chilean companies improve their standards in these areas and collaborate in the improvement of economic activity, but they can also perfectly transform into a "non-traditional" export and go out into the world to value the quality of talents made in Chile.