How Engaging With Employees And Addressing Their Concerns Can Help Leaders Accelerate The Return To Work Process
With more people getting vaccinated and fewer numbers of COVID-19 cases being reported globally, many countries are allowing non-essential businesses to reopen. United States is ready to follow suit. Organizations from various sectors are planning a return to the physical office. However, there are some serious questions about the future of work processes and what the workplace will look like after employees come back after an extended work-from-home stint. The pandemic has had a far-reaching impact on the personal and professional lives of most people. There has been a major transformation in the work style approaches of companies, and employees …
Tips to Stay Focused and Organized While Working Remotely
The pandemic has forced many businesses to shut their operations completely or trim employee strength. Consequently, many people have lost their jobs. Those lucky enough to have avoided a lost job are likelier to be working from home. This was supposedly a temporary phenomenon. However, even after the impact of pandemic has significantly waned, a large number of companies are offering permanent work from home options or hybrid working opportunities with more flexibility. Are you one of the employees working from home? While you enjoy the flexibility associated with work from home, you must find a way to stay organized. …
Change Management In A Post COVID-19 World
We are going through a global health crisis of unprecedented dimensions. Although the force of the pandemic has abated in many parts of the world, the threat of the next wave is always looming. That’s why there is a cautious approach at every level. Organizations are keen to get going again but the impact of COVID-19 has ensured that things will never be the same again for them. Change management is a tool that organizations must embrace to adapt to changed circumstances. Preparation for a new kind of approach must precede office reopening. A human-centric work environment and hybrid teams …
Edge Computing: Why it is important?
With the onset of faster communications technologies like 5G wireless, the road is clear for faster distributed computing paradigms to be implemented, granting businesses better efficiency and speed. We have already talked at length about the benefits of cloud computing. The separation between hardware and software allows both to grow at an independent pace, with a comparatively lesser number of restrictions in terms of computing power and storage space. “Edge” is another facet of this type of distributed computing. It is a new computing paradigm which combines concepts of IoT and Cloud Computing. It is a way of efficiently utilizing …
What is Supplier Diversity and Why it is Important?
Diversity is an important concern in the modern world. In the recent years, there has been an increasing scrutiny regarding the diversity initiatives that companies are undertaking. Workplace diversity has become increasingly importance and now there is a heavier push for equal employment opportunities for all, regardless of gender, race, disability or sexual preference and orientation. We talked about workplace diversity at length in our blog before, which you can visit here. However, there is another facet to diversity that is getting quite a lot of attention. Supplier diversity is about giving small companies, owned by minorities and other disadvantaged …
Top 7 Skills Every Talent Acquisition Professional Should Have
Why is it important to think about the skills of your team of professionals? Talent acquisition is the lifeline of any business. It is the crucial process through which organizations acquire their most important asset – people. Most business leaders agree that having the right people in your organization is extremely important. People can make or break organizations. You can have the best marketing strategy or the most effective plans to grow your business and still not succeed if you don’t have the right people taking care of the execution. That is why talent acquisition is so important for organizations. …
Types of Cloud Service Models and Major Cloud Service Providers
Why Cloud Computing? Globally, businesses are turning towards cloud computing and cloud services. Providers are coming up with innovations leveraging cloud computing to provide tools and technologies. These are, however, not products but services. This trend saw a healthy growth in year 2020. With the COVID–19 pandemic, more and more businesses leveraged cloud services to their advantage. Even essential services, like healthcare and government, are now moving towards cloud adoption. This is all because of the many benefits offered by cloud services. Cloud removes most disadvantages and causes for concern as regards rapid technological advancement. It essentially eliminates the need …
Diversity and Inclusion In 2021
In our earlier article, we talked about the rising significance of the role of Diversity and Inclusion in the corporate world. We provided some tips on managing a healthy Diversity and an Inclusive mindset at the workplace, in the COVID-19 situation, where most people are now working from home. We also touched upon why its important to keep up the momentum behind the push to Diversity and Inclusion at the workplace, and how it can be lost in the remote work situation. And lastly, we provided some tips to effectively manage Diversity and Inclusion at your workplace. As we are …
Recruitment Best Practices and Trends For 2021
Introduction 2020 has been a year of unprecedented situations and social and economic upheaval. This year has left an indelible mark on us collectively. With the COVID-19 situation disrupting many industries and how they function, to the rising awareness of the need for equality to all people regardless of race, gender, class, creed or orientation, we have seen and lived through events that we will talk about for the rest of our lives. These situations have given way to some very pertinent questions. The question of how to effectively acquire and manage human resources is one of the most pertinent …
Top 5 Challenges to Enterprise IoT Adoption
Introduction With the strides taken in communications technology like the Internet, the upcoming 5G technology and with more efficient connectivity for devices, the appeal of connecting “smart” devices together has increased so that they can collaborate autonomously, be more responsive and merge the digital and physical universes. This phenomenon, called the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been touted as a technology with the potential for huge disruption in the way we conduct our lives and the way we conduct business. Successful adoption of this technology can have far reaching results. One of them is the advent of Enterprise IoT. The use of …