What’s the future of fully in-office work? What’s the hiring outlook for finance and accounting roles in 2025? Steve Saah, the executive director of the finance and accounting permanent placement practice at Robert Half, tackles those and other questions in this episode of the Journal of Accountancy podcast, recorded in December in San Diego.

Saah discusses how companies have to walk a fine line when it comes to requiring in-office minimum hours or days – and how that tightrope can affect the pay they offer new employees.

The episode is the first of 2025 and the second from the Future of Finance Summit. In the first summit-focused episode, four CPA leaders looked back on what they learned and ahead to their expectations for 2025.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

· Saah’s assessment of the future of fully in-office work.

· The tie-in between required time in an office and recruiting new hires.

· How the amount of time agreed upon to spend in the office could affect a new hire’s pay.

· Is the annual employee review a thing of the past?

· The hiring outlook for finance and accounting professionals and the in-demand skills for those roles.

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