posted 14th November 2025
Nowadays, companies are embracing unique business models which include traditional in-office environments, remote working and hybrid setups.
These setups have shaped the way businesses operate - especially when it comes to hiring strategies. With employees today prioritising flexibility and work-life balance, employers need to find a balance between flexibility, productivity, meeting employee expectations and enhancing employee retention.
In this article, we examine how to understand workplace models, how employers can navigate different work setups to achieve a successful recruitment strategy and recognise suitable candidates for hiring. We will also provide guidance on clear communication, how to maintain flexibility when hiring and how Winberry can help employers achieve success to strengthen workplace models.
Understanding Workplace Models
Having a successful workplace model comes from implementing strong hiring strategies and creating a positive workplace culture. Hiring suitable candidates for your business model is important as it provides growth opportunities, highlights skillsets and encourages diversity hiring.
For employers, it’s important to understand your business model and shape your hiring strategies to achieve long-term growth and employee retention.
The three core workplace models are:
- Remote model: This is where employees work away from the office and are based at home
- Hybrid model: A model that enables candidates to have a balance of working from the office and home
- In-office model: A traditional workplace model where employees work alongside other staff in an office environment - promoting a positive workplace culture and team building
How Workplace Models Influence Hiring Strategies
Based on 2025 workforce trends and research by CIPD in 2025, 80% of UK workers experience a positive lifestyle outcome through flexible roles and 91% of employers offer flexible workplace setups as part of their business business model.
For candidates entering the workforce for the first time or seeking work and lifestyle balance opportunities, flexibility is important. By applying this approach, employers can create a positive workplace culture and enhance employee retention.
Here’s how workplace models are influencing hiring strategies for employers:
- Remote: Convenient and opportunistic for employees to showcase their skillset. Located away from the office, remote employees can communicate through collaborative tools which enhances their digital skills.
The model also encourages independent working, time-management and communication skills
- Hybrid: With employees based at home and the office, this model requires clear demands, attracts talent, enhances employee retention, promotes flexibility and encourages diversity hiring while maintaining a healthy workplace culture
- In-office: Suitable for employers who require temporary staffing, seasonal hiring and permanent employees to be on-site. The model creates a positive workplace culture and builds on communication skills. For employers, it’s also a chance to observe employee skills firsthand to identify skills gaps.
Clear Communication of Workplace Policies
Clear communication, transparency and compliance are key when hiring candidates. By clearly communicating workplace policies as part of hiring strategies, employers will attract the right talent, meet staff expectations, maintain employee retention and strengthen business reputation.
Employers can ensure clear communication by:
- Providing clarity of workplace model through all stages of the recruitment process
- Being transparent from the start about employee expectations and workplace setup including work hours and role flexibility
- Clearly documenting workplace policies within contracts and employee handbooks for company compliance
How to Assess Candidate Suitability for Your Business Model
As an employer, it’s important to create a workplace model that reflects the needs and goals of your business. That’s why, to build a sustainable business with longevity, having a strong hiring strategy and recruiting suitable candidates is key.
Whether your business model setup is remote, hybrid or in-office, hiring candidates who meet these needs is important to achieve employee retention, diversity hiring close skills gaps.
By tailoring hiring strategies and interview techniques, employers can assess and target suitable candidates along with identifying their skillsets by:
- Implementing questionnaires and surveys within the application process to gauge role suitability
- Asking candidates skills-based and behavioural questions to help assess professional and personal approaches
Implementing Flexibility into Workplace Models
Employers are seen to be incorporating flexible working arrangements into their models to attract suitable talent.
There are various advantages to implementing flexibility into workplace models, including:
- Candidates viewing your business as an appealing place to build a career
- Being positioned as an inclusive and diversity hiring employer
- Narrowing the skills gaps and detecting where candidate strengths lie
- Increased task productivity
- Maintaining employee retention
How Winberry Helps Build Effective Workplace Models
At Winberry, we understand the importance of hiring the right candidates and matching them to suit workplace models. That’s why, by applying our expert recruitment services, we help employers strengthen their workplace models so they can hire suitable candidates for long-term growth.
Within our staffing agency, our expert team provide employers with tailored work solutions regarding:
- Creating strong remote, hybrid, and in-office models
- Clear communication of workplace policies
- Compliance, temporary staffing, seasonal hiring and temporary recruitment
- Enhancing employee retention for long-term growth
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