Vijay Bankar

Listen to the article. "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."  — Hubert Humphrey 😃😃 Jokes apart, continuous employee listening is gaining momentum due to the developments in the preceding three years. It is also an integral part of the people analytics function. We implement it for devising compelling employee experience. Like other initiatives, we took a leaf out of the marketing book and initiated a continuous employee listening strategy to enhance the employee engagement. The direct upshot of continuously receiving employee feedback is gaining instantaneous actionable insights to improve employee experience and engagement. While also facilitating lower turnover and enhancing productivity and performance. According to a Bain & Company survey, 80% of organizations are optimistic about utilizing employee engagement systems in 2023. Active listening and passive listening are the rudimentary components of continuous

These days the market is inundated with a plethora of HR Tech options with solutions championed by AI. Almost every vendor flaunts their offerings, expatiating the salient AI features of their product. And how it would successfully address our concerns relating to people management. And the fortuitous arrival of Generative AI seems to be the 'next-gen' nascent technology within the HR Tech landscape. It will offer use cases limited only by the fecundity of our imagination. The often cited main benefits of AI tools, as Sir Humphrey Appleby would say, "thereby releasing their overlords for the more onerous duties and profound deliberations that are the inevitable concomitant of their exalted position." 😃😃 Given the rapid innovations in product capabilities, purveyors do not fit into one category. It leads to misapprehension about the categorization due to overlap. The absence of clear demarcation makes it inscrutable and incomprehensible for lay people to understand t

This is my first attempt at the Event Report. PeopleStrong organized their annual product launch event ‘AltifyHR2019’ on February 15, 2019, in Mumbai. PeopleStrong is important ‘Core HR Platform' among the mid-sized global vendors according to ‘ HR Technology Market 2019 ’ report prepared by Josh Bersin. However, PeopleStrong confirmed that they offer SaaS, and PaaS platforms, in addition to Collaboration and Productivity Tools. Their SaaS HR Platform provides options for Recruitment, Core HR, Workforce Management, Talent Management, Payroll, and People Analytics.  Around 200+ eminent HR Professionals were present at the event. Workshop : Abhijit Bhaduri , (Digital Transformation Coach, Author, Blogger, Influencer, Keynote Speaker & Columnist) addressed the Pre-Launch Workshop on “Managing the Work, Worker, and Working of Future.” With a sneak peek into the future, he explained how the world of work is changing in line with the developments in the external env