Flexible work remains essential for attracting talent – study
Recruitment firm Cpl has released its salary guide for 2025 detailing the expected pay levels for a wide range of roles across 20 different sectors.
The guide is also emphasising that financial incentives alone no longer suffice and that flexible working remains an essential offering when it comes to attracting top talent.
According to Cpl, workers are also prioritising career development and meaningful work, with many professionals citing learning opportunities as critical to their career decisions.
Pay remains a central element of talent strategies with over 8 in 10 employers planning salary increases averaging 3.4% in 2025.
“Guidance like this is key as we continue to work in a rapidly transforming environment,” said Áine Fanning, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Cpl.
“For instance we continue to see a vast majority of Irish employees favouring hybrid or remote arrangements.”
“Our own research shows that 60% of candidates would turn down a new position if it didn’t meet their hybrid working needs.”
“However the dynamic is shifting as are beginning to see a decrease in fully remote job postings but also in hybrid,” Ms Fanning said.
“This trend suggests that the future of work in Ireland will require a thoughtful balance to ensure that operational needs align with the flexibility employees value,” she added.
The share of Irish job postings on hiring platform Indeed offering remote or hybrid work rose to a record high at the end of December 2024.
The latest figures from hiring platform IrishJobs show that the proportion of hybrid working vacancies, as a share of total vacancies, has remained stable for the second successive quarter.
The proportion of fully remote vacancies on IrishJobs has fallen by more than 80% since the high recorded in the third quarter of 2022.
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