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Updated on: Dec 2021
Agile Talent Management Strategies for Changing Workplace
New HR Trends

Agile Talent Management Strategies for Changing Workplace

Organizations are always on the edge, striving to have the best competitive advantage. In a fast-changing marketplace, the ones with the most innovative, strategic, and agile offerings succeed. Talent management is the foundation of creating meaningful people practices and in today’s agile environments, it is critical to the performance of a company. The recent pandemic […]

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Hitting the Reset Button!- Nanjappa B.S, VP-HR, Infosys
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Hitting the Reset Button!- Nanjappa B.S, VP-HR, Infosys

As I drive to office, I look around and the entire city is abuzz, however, the last mile of my drive is deserted with hardly a soul in the vicinity, insinuating towards the massive transformation underway for all of us & knowing that it’s never going to be the same again. While a lot has […]

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How to Design Your Hybrid Workplace
Culture & Behaviour

How to Design Your Hybrid Workplace

There is no denying that the COVID 19 pandemic has affected the lives of billions. What was supposed to be a 2 week mandatory WFH has turned into 2 years, with still no sign of a potential end. In these uncertain and unprecedented times, it becomes clear that we have to adapt Hybrid Workplace and […]

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Back to Work: Never Going Back- TCS Chief Leadership & Diversity Officer
Future of Work

Back to Work: Never Going Back- TCS Chief Leadership & Diversity Officer

As a growing part of the world population starts to get vaccinated, companies across the world and across industries are looking at what “back to work” will look like. And in that same context, I use “never going back”, taking into account several dimensions. Never going back to the old ways of working and the […]

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How to Plan Your Retirement Successfully
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How to Plan Your Retirement Successfully

Retirement is not the stoppage of work: in today’s evolving context it is simply a transition from one phase of life to another. It is also not something that is uniquely recent in that our traditional scriptures and texts also speak of the four phases in a human’s life, with the third dealing with retirement […]

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Role of CHROs in Creating Edge-to-Office Initiatives for the Hybrid World
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Role of CHROs in Creating Edge-to-Office Initiatives for the Hybrid World

Role of CHROs in Creating Edge-to-Office Initiatives for the Hybrid World During the past one year with so, HR’s role in organizations has become much more central. Along with the CEOs and business leaders, they had to co-create structures and models to withstand disruption by being business-centric and people-focused, at the same time. Constant up-gradation and […]

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Welcome to the new workplace ‘Hyperconnected & Humanised’
Future of Work

Welcome to the new workplace ‘Hyperconnected & Humanised’

Everything is connected. Digital is a given– ‘Hyperconnectivity’ was a term coined by Canadian social scientists Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman referring to the use of multiple means of communication – email, instant messaging, telephone, face-to-face contact, and platform services. The idea is that all devices that could conceivably benefit from being connected to a […]

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Redefining the Role of Future CHROs: Unearth, the New You…
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Redefining the Role of Future CHROs: Unearth, the New You…

Redefining the Role of Future CHROs in Hybrid Work Model In the context of emerging Hybrid Work Model, wherein employee centricity has taken precedence over all other parameters which were hitherto considered as vital for organizational survival and growth, the role of CHROs no doubt will need to be redefined unearthed, not just by reinventing […]

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How to Keep Back-To-Work Blues at Bay!!
Culture & Behaviour

How to Keep Back-To-Work Blues at Bay!!

In the words of Paulo Coelho, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” We often find it difficult to adjust to work from office culture after a long break and find ourselves slightly demotivated or exhausted. With pandemic scare almost ending and offices regaining their normal work […]

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How QualityKiosk Plans Return to Workplace
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How QualityKiosk Plans Return to Workplace

How QualityKiosk Plans Return to Workplace The pandemic has advanced years to our lives. What was earlier being planned for the future has suddenly been advanced to “now” and this defines the new normal, which is changing rapidly. In a way, the normal has now become a moving normal which has compelled us to be […]

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Top Challenges in Getting Employees Back to Office
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Top Challenges in Getting Employees Back to Office

Top Challenges in Getting Employees Back to Office A recent study by Barco ClickShare, in June 2021, indicated that 75% of employees want to be back in the office. Another survey by Office Pass TOP indicated that Indians are cautious but waiting eagerly to be back to work and the most sought-after format is 3-4 […]

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Return to Workplace – Managing Employee Anxiety in the Workplace
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Return to Workplace – Managing Employee Anxiety in the Workplace

Return to Workplace – Managing Employee Anxiety in the Workplace The future has always been uncertain and unseen. Our ability to visualize future helps us to understand tomorrow and prepare ourselves in advance for the possible obstacles and opportunities. However, sometimes the situation may catch us unprepared. This is what happened when the entire world hit the […]

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