Building a future-ready workforce

With recent disruptions around the world, a lot of factors have coincided to confront the traditional functioning of workplaces. These factors include the role of technology, growing demand for a work-life balance, and most recently, a global pandemic leading to a lot of uncertainty and speculation within the workplace. This has introduced additional challenges for organizations to start planning the future of its workforce.

What will this future be like?

A large percentage of the workforce is now working remotely due to the proliferation of COVID-19. While many employees are adapting to the new normal, many are anxious about the future. This will lead to a rise in the demand for technological and higher cognitive skills. The increase in the demand of technological skills will accelerate the need of creating a flexible infrastructure and enable workers with access to tools that keep them productive from anywhere in the world.

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Agile Workforce

Flexible infrastructure for an agile workforce

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With the age of remote working truly upon us, the notion of an agile workforce is crucial in creating an agile organization. A large portion of the workforce have to work from home in order to remain safe. To tackle this change and maintain work flow, IT decision-making has to undergo sudden changes. This makes the previously skeptical business leaders to now look for off-premise tools to make their workers more agile.

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Vinod NG

Vinod NG

Prior to joining Infosys, Vinod served as an Associate Professor, in Christ College (Christ University), Bangalore, in the Hospitality, Travel & Tourism education.

Alumni of (IHM) Indian Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore, Vinod completed his Master of Arts in travel and Tourism Management, and also completed the Infosys-Stanford Global Leadership Program, in Palo Alto, USA.

Vinod, joined Infosys Facilities in 2007, and was based out of the Bangalore office, and moved to the US in 2015 to manage Facilities Operations.

Currently Vinod is an Associate Vice President – Facilities, managing Facilities Operations across the Americas with his Team.

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Upskilling Digital

Upskilling for a digital world

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Within next few years, a large portion of all jobs will require digital skills. A lack of digital skills will act as a significant barrier for an organization to become a leader in digital technologies. Workers will need to be reskilled or upskilled in the workplace. This creates a need to upgrade the skills system and training modules to focus on the jobs of the future and not just today.

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Rajesh Ahuja

Rajesh Ahuja

Rajesh has very rich experience in HR Management, panning multiple industries like Tech, Banking and Manufacturing and across three continents. Currently heading the Talent Acquisition function for Infosys, Rajesh’s has always believed in being a true enabler & partner to the businesses by being proactive and constantly improving the hiring posture of the company. Rajesh’s areas of focus are future of work, Tech led HR and learning for as a lifelong skill. Love reading, sports and amateur photography

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Diversity

Diversity & Inclusion

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In the past few years, diversity and inclusion have grown as a corporate imperative. With the rapid pace at which workforce is changing has created a big challenge for the HR & Talent leaders today. Cultural evolution, emerging markets, and advancing technology will continue to play a major role in creating an increasingly complex corporate ecosystem. People from diverse lifestyles and background challenge each other more. While an inclusive workplace makes them feel valued and respected and creates a positive impact on employee retention.

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Sandra Jackson

Sandra has worked for Infosys Ltd. for 9 years leading the Affirmative Action/Compliance and Workforce Diversity and Inclusion functions for the Americas Region.

Her past experiences included living and working internationally in Zurich, Switzerland and then on to Izmir, Turkey. It is there where she found her love for culture and her appreciation for global diversity.

She has over 20 years of human resources experience including holding several roles in IT as the Global Talent Manager for HP Enterprise Services, Manager Diversity & Inclusion, EDS (now DXC Technologies) as well as various HR Strategic Business Partner roles.

She has developed and facilitated leadership training & development programs and managed diversity & inclusion strategies to increase the talent pool for women and underrepresented groups.

She is a recipient of the Diversity Consortium Founder Award (National Diversity Connections Consortium), and the INROADS Internship Outstanding Manager of the Year Award (INROADS Southwest Region).

Sandra holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Relations and Business Management. She is PMP and SPHR (HRCI) certified. She is also certified by Berlitz Language Institute for Cultural Training and by Global Novations for Diversity and Inclusion Training.

Sandra resides in Dallas, Texas, and in her spare time she enjoys travelling, working out at the gym, wine tasting, bike riding, volunteering and spending time with her son and family.

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Focusing On Health

Focusing on health & well-being

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Health is central to human happiness and well-being. Focusing on employee’s health has become more important than before. A lot of factors such as uncertainty, complexity, workload and anxiety can result in creating a negative impact on the well-being and productivity of an employee at the workplace. To overcome such challenges, an employer must focus on building a happy and healthy work environment. Feeling healthy and balanced drives employees to perform at their best level possible.

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Ranjana Venkatesh Joshi

Ranjana Venkatesh Joshi

Ranjana has Bachelor’s degree in Science and Masters in Business Administration. She hails from Dharwad, a town in Karnataka, India. she enjoys traveling and has tremendous love for sports in general but cricket in particular. She has close to 20 years of experience in HR and has played several roles in HR over the years. Skilled in Talent Management, organizational development, org culture, coaching, HR transitions including large rebadges. In her current role, she heads Business HR for Infosys USA & Canada.

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