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Tech Investment Helps Polaris Transport Shift to Remote Work

May 7, 2020

‘We focus more on outcomes rather than hours and the current situation has accelerated all that’: CHRO

 

With many companies becoming virtual overnight due to the COVID-19 crisis, one trucking company used the shift to accelerate technological changes already in the works.

“We’re fortunate that we’ve made major investments in technology over the last couple of years,” says Sandy Buik, CHRO at Polaris Transportation in Mississauga, Ont. “We were able to move 85 per cent of our workforce to work off-site, who weren’t used to doing that; they were used to working at the office… which is as much a testament to the team as to anything else.”

Read the full article on Canadian HR Reporter

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