How corporates can take a leaf out of the Indian elections’ playbook on managing the workforce
Every job that adds value can become a superjob, asserts Anand Shankar, Partner, Leader – HR Transformation, Deloitte. A superjob, according to Shankar, is when the full advantage of technology is leveraged keeping the human dimensions intact to redesign jobs.
Speaking at the just concluded SHRM HR Tech APAC Conference, he was sharing vignettes from the 2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends survey, released during the event which had some forward looking insights. Sixty two per cent of respondents to the Global Human Capital trends survey said they were using automation to eliminate transactional work and replace repetitive tasks, 47 per cent said they were also augmenting existing work practices to improve productivity and 36 per cent were “re-imagining work”.
Most respondents said they were doubling down on re-skilling.
Piecing together the findings, Deloitte’s Human Capital team found that when parts of the job, usually process-oriented ones, are automated, the parts that remain manual need more interpretive skills. These create what they call hybrid jobs, and these are the fastest growing jobs today. In this, the nature of the job has not changed but only the nature of the skill to do the job has changed.
However, according to Deloitte, there is a next level of shift coming where technology not only changes the skill requirement for the job, but also changes the nature of the work itself, to give unimagined productivity gains. That’s the superjob.
Source: The Hindu BusinessLine
