Birmingham can benefit from the pandemic’s effects on business, Landing’s Bill Smith says
The changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic to business culture in the United States are still being understood, but within those changes are opportunities for Birmingham.
That’s the verdict of Landing CEO Bill Smith, who took part in a panel discussion on the future of the workplace at the offices of creative agency Luckie Tuesday.
With remote work loosening the tentacles of the office that kept some employees tied to locations, Smith said workers are freer to find cities that help them achieve a better balance between job and life.
“You don’t have to make a choice between having a family and having a successful career,” Smith said.
“Preparing Alabama for the Workforce of the Future” featured Smith, who also founded shopping app Shipt, Economic Development Partnership of Alabama President Greg Barker, Dr. Joanne Hale, associate dean and COO at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business, and Cornell…
