| | MAY 20224 The role of a human resources (HR) leader has undergone sea changes over the past couple of years alone. Amidst the overall disruption the pandemic caused, the expectations from an HR leader escalated to another level. If the HR leader was the link between management and the employee workforce, akin to the transformation of roles of other CXOs, the organizations today expect more from their HR leaders. This includes direct contributions to the growth via multiple avenues, helping employees settle into the new normal, and even equipping the organization for a pandemic-like scenario in the future. A recent Gartner poll shows that around 48 percent of employees will likely work at least part of the time remotely after COVID-19 versus 30 percent before the pandemic. This brings its own set of challenges to the HR leaders. While the HR department remains fundamentally responsible for the workforce's performance, productivity, and efficiency, they will have the bigger job of comprehending the challenges the employees face, including what they are struggling with inside and outside of work. This implies that employees will need support, including enhanced sick leave, financial assistance, adjusted hours of operation, and child care provisions. In the long run, HR leaders will also need to pilot the transition from an efficiency-driven to a resilience-driven organization.On the other hand, organizations worldwide will focus on expanding their geographic diversification and investment in secondary markets to mitigate and manage risk in times of disruption. This will increase the complexity of size and organizational management, which in turn will create challenges for HR leaders as operating models evolve. HR leaders will need to diversify their skills, acquire new ones, and leverage the technology more to navigate these challenges. This issue is about a bunch of HR leaders from the IT sector who lead by example.Sujith VasudevanManaging Editoreditor@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorialDawn of `Human' Era Vol 04 · Issue 5 - 3 · May, 2022 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Sujith Vasudevan Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaRohit Raghubanshi Garima Anandadvertise@ceoinsightsindia.comEditorial queries editor@ceoinsightsindia.comTo subscribeVisit www.ceoinsightsindia.com/subscribe/ or send emailto subscription@ceoinsightsindia.comCover price is Rs.150 per issue.Editor Alok ChaturvediPrinted and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of InfoConnect Web Technolo-gies India Pvt. Ltd., and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017.Copyright © 2022 InfoConnect Web Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher. Design Mohana Krishnan Prabhu Dutta Souvik AcharyaVP - Sales & Marketing Amrit SinghCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal Editorial Ananth V Aveek Pal Chaudhuri Mandvi Singh Sthitaprajnya Panigrahi
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