Workplace Trends
11 Workplace Trends
Imagining Asia 2030: Eight Megatrends That Will Impact Asia
Exponential change is at our doorstep – be it environmental, political or technological. To name a few:Microscopic particles of plastic are falling out of the sky with snow in the Arctic; trade wars are heating up and global trade and growth is cooling down; the development of artificial intelligence and its application in real life is accelerated. The World Economic Forum states that we’re on the brink of experiencing a fourth industrial revolution. It will likely to be unprecedented in…
Posted by: The ADP Team 21 Aug 2019 | 0 Comments
Two Ways AI will Help to Create More Meaningful Jobs
What are you working for?The answers may vary a lot depending on the group or individual that you’re posing the question to. Millennial and Gen Z would probably answer around their personal aspirations, while their senior counterparts may tend to focus more on family and social responsibilities.It is a simple but very important question to ask. Based on it, we start to design all the employee experience programs. However, the reality often tells us that it is not possible to…
Posted by: The ADP Team 14 Aug 2019 | 0 Comments
Brand – It’s What’s Inside That Counts
In his book Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at Google, talks about a time when employee referrals for new hires at Google went down. This was very concerning, because their greatest source of successful new hires and talent was actually from referrals from existing employees (Bock, 2015). Surprisingly, doubling the referral bonus still didn’t work. Turns out, it was the candidate expectation and experience in the hiring process – Google employees were actually intrinsically motivated to refer…
Posted by: The Connect@ADP Team 26 Apr 2018 | 0 Comments
The Gig Economy – Not Your Parents’ Workforce
In a recent article for People Matters, Abhijit Bhaduri shares his view that it’s time for labour laws in India (and globally) to evolve to encompass and recognise the rise in the gig economy. While the gig economy has long existed for those who provided casual manual labour, these days many people from a wide array of industries are also turning to freelance work, whether it is to provide extra income for their families or to enjoy the freedom and…
Posted by: 20 Apr 2018 | 0 Comments
Holacracy or Anarchy 4 Strategies to Let Go of Organisational Hierarchy
When Zappos, the online shoe and clothing shop, famously gave their employees an ultimatum to embrace holacracy or leave, the HR and business worlds took notice. One of the retail industry's most successful players was embracing a somewhat radical HR notion: the idea of dismantling departments and empowering employees to self-manage. The company believed that more relaxed management structures could generate better business results and better fit workers' desire for a more flexible environment.According to the ADP Research Institute® study…
Posted by: adpindia 23 Apr 2017 | 0 Comments