Creating a Future-Ready Workplace post COVID-19

The pandemic has caused CIOs to embed uncertainty and zero trust policies into their strategic IT design. This has led to the creation of a flexible and fluid IT model that could survive and adapt to such disruptions. The Fluid IT model comprises a modular structure that works with access and utility rather than underlying technology and applications. IT has evolved from databases and applications to serverless computing and cognitive customer experience. This has led to the creation of new skill-sets in the market.

Organizations need to go an extra mile to prepare employees for the future. At the same time, enterprises pose a big challenge post this turbulence – How to effectively tackle the changing IT landscape with on-demand resourcing, and how to create a flexible and hybrid workplace that can be deemed as future-ready and resilient.

Today, we are witnessing a transition from silo functions to agile teams and the boundaries between roles are beginning to converge across many organizations. Disruption is not something new; we have seen it in the past following the industrial revolutions from mechanical to electrical to computing to now digital.

Organizations today need to go the extra mile to prepare employees for the future. This involves overcoming the fundamental challenges of motivating employees, investing in them, and making programs scalable. The innovators need to think futuristic. Human Resources may find it challenging to bridge the gap between the technological innovations and the skill-set required. Rather than trying to keep pace with the ever-changing landscape, recruiters need to think one-step ahead. Finally, the human resources need to rethink and redesign their IT needs aligned with organizational strategic objectives, and create a future-ready workforce in a next-gen fluid workplace that will help them to shape the experiences of tomorrow.

The COVID situation has made work an integral part of our personal lives and has become a part of our home routine. The widespread adoption of remote working has massively increased the burden on networking technologies. This has built a strong case for AI-driven platforms that eliminate the need for VPN technologies that sit on top of the infrastructure and critical measures to ensure data and network security. Ever since the industry switched to remote working, it has seen immense value in offering its employees the ability to work from home; and as a result, reduce overhead costs especially office infrastructure. In addition, an increased focus on ‘Digital transformation’ has yielded benefits with near-seamless operations during the pandemic.

Deepak Sahu, President & CEO, VARINDIA