Workplace Social

The future of the workplace is social!

As we venture into the ever-changing landscape of human civilization, we encounter the evolving dynamics of human growth, needs and adapted reality as presented to us at differing stages of time.

While I might not need to elaborate on the past, the present and near future does present us with evolving human dynamics which will impact how organizations can attract and retain the best talent, not merely based on employer branding, but rather aligning to the fundamental and altering realities of human societies.

1. We shall see more single parents; organizations will thus have to focus not only on the talent, but the family as a whole and address its needs. Today we do it perhaps on an individual basis, but it shall have to be captured as a norm within the system and future systems will have to be keep the entire family in mind, and not just the employee.

2. Skill-based relationships within employees and thus loyalties will emerge as a strong antecedent to employee engagement. This becomes a natural outcome of the 1st factor, as a higher dependency on your co-worker is a summary outcome. Norms, rather than policies will thus have to attune to this new reality and find ways to bring more liberty to workhours and work practices and liberalised work ethics in particular.

3. Liberalised work practices will include treating non-human workers as employees and creating tactical teams with bots and technology assists. The love and affection we have for pets will get transported towards bots and thus their rights, position in the workplace and treatment as an entity will bring in new functional challenges to manage and deliver. Again, the need for revisiting work ethics will find importance.

4. As workplaces become a hubris of tech and human interdependent workflows, the need to revisit social norms, workplace design and emergence of psychologists for the workplace will become a permanence. The role of the CHRO will be more of an Ethics Head, managing complex social networks, as factor No. 1 already mentions the integration of family and society into the workplace as a fluid apparatus.

5. Finally, the need to reduce friction among organizational hierarchies, however tall will need to be observed with a higher tech vigil. That frictions will cause constant disruptions till social workplace norms emerge over time will be the greatest challenge for #HumanResources is not simply a statement, but a much-needed call for gearing the workplace into a social with set norms right away.

Organizations and tech firms willing to explore and discuss this further with can reach out to me; I'm keen to work on helping the knowledge firms prepare tools, norms and ethics codes for a future which has already arrived at our doorsteps.