One IT company in Serbia paid programmers 17,000 euros this year, it was said today at the panel “Has the crisis made IT personnel a more affordable workforce” at the Kopaonik Business Forum.
Presenting this information, the general director of MVP Workshop Studio Aleksandar Bjelic stated that it is not easy to find IT staff and that the salary is not always the most important thing for experts in this field, but sometimes, especially the younger ones, it is important for them to have someone to learn from in a certain company.
“We have to see what we can offer them and what we can do to win them over and keep them”, he pointed out and added that the old reward mechanisms are not always expedient in new circumstances.
It is known that IT experts often work from home, so the panel discussed the advantages and disadvantages of flexible forms of work.
Thus, the Secretary General of the Association of Banks of Serbia, Vladimir Vasić, pointed out that socialization is a very important component of belonging to the company, that young people today attach more importance to utility than belonging to the home, but that it is also nice to get out of the house and contact colleagues live.
“It is human to gather and socialize, and when working from home, the feeling of belonging to the company is weaker. Banks offer a balance between working from home and in the office,” he said, adding that the feeling of belonging should last.
Vasić pointed out that, as far as banks are concerned, it was clearly shown that the bank is where the mobile phone is and stated that the figures show that in 2019 there were 1.2 and now there are 3.8 million users of mobile banking applications.
“Only last year we concluded 75,000 contracts with clients that we did not see at that time,” he said.
He pointed out that digitization is one of the most pronounced trends in banking and stated that it is predicted that by 2030, about 60 billion dollars will be invested in artificial intelligence.
According to him, banks and fintech companies are cooperating more and more, so banks organize hackathons to attract fintech companies.
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