Prior to the pandemic, as most audit shops across the country will tell you, we were having difficulty attracting individuals. There's just a high demand for them.
In this context, we just launched our process on Friday in order to increase significantly our performance audit practice and some of our HR group and in order to be able to onboard all of these individuals. We're still working through the mechanics of what that might look like, but we know that it's absolutely going to be in a virtual forum, a virtual interview. Even recruiting events are now going to be virtual across our social media platforms. It's going to take a little time for everyone to get used to that.
Onboarding will be different for individuals, and we've also started to train our managers, given that managing a remote workforce brings a whole set of different challenges. We need our managers as well as our employees to be at ease with what that might look like. We're not the only ones living through this. The entire federal public service is living through this. The private sector is living through this. We've been talking with many people in order to learn about best practices and hopefully leverage that.
What I can guarantee is that I think it will take some time, a little longer than we normally expect, which is why we decided to still launch our hiring process without the funding so that we could get the ball rolling.