Are UK companies allowed to offer visa sponsorships if there isn’t a skill shortage?

[edison]

actually the Indian restaurants simply refuse to hire even the very best output from our catering colleges, I am talking about places where many go onto working for the best chefs. the Brits coming out of these colleges are well able to do any of the Indian menus. the Indian restaurants prefer to import chefs from India, for multiple reasons, for one they can bully them more easily as they simply dont know the rules and employment rights here, for 2 they can pay off the books some or all of the money and avoid tax, and so on. the Indian restaurants are simply racist against the native population when it comes to hiring for their kitchens.

Aren't most 'Indian' restaurants in the UK actually run by Bangladeshis?

Chefs might be a very specialist skill depending on the cuisine perhaps which requires importing in talent. A lot of IT jobs really shouldn't be in that category where it surely must be possible to train and develop British people.

I worked at a client a few years ago which had trouble attracting and retaining IT staff. They piloted a data apprenticeship scheme and there was a lot of interest in it. A couple of years later they had trained up several data analysts and data scientists.

I've done work with clients on workforce development to include things like mentoring, coaching, training programmes etc. Unfortunately, a lot of organisations are poorly managed with ineffective managers who have barely enough time to do anything other than their day job and development of staff ends up being a very low priority.

It's such a shame. There is a huge opportunity here to develop our skills base and improve employee engagement given lack of career development is one of the biggest reasons for low engagement.

[SussexSeagull]

Also, while remote working is usually fine for people who have done the job for years I am not sure how I would have coped with it when first starting out.

[edison]

Also, while remote working is usually fine for people who have done the job for years I am not sure how I would have coped with it when first starting out.

People early in their career would probably benefit from spending some time in the office but it depends on the quality of the interaction they get.

My daughter has just completed her first year of uni. In that time she's been working part time remotely for a PR and marketing firm with one of their tech clients. She's never once had to go in the office and has managed to learn a lot it seems.

However, she's about to start a three month remote internship for a startup and I think that will be more challenging for her.

Like a lot of things to do with post-Covid work, we might not really see or understand the full effects for a few years yet.

[CoolCat]

People early in their career would probably benefit from spending some time in the office but it depends on the quality of the interaction they get.

My daughter has just completed her first year of uni. In that time she's been working part time remotely for a PR and marketing firm with one of their tech clients. She's never once had to go in the office and has managed to learn a lot it seems.

However, she's about to start a three month remote internship for a startup and I think that will be more challenging for her.

Like a lot of things to do with post-Covid work, we might not really see or understand the full effects for a few years yet.

I learnt far more from my workmates around me in my first job than I ever learnt in college, and not the kind of stuff which can be taught remotely.