siliconindia | | November 201919he expression of my life is just the expression of my well-assimilated value structure. What I do is but no expression of what is valuable to me. For comforts to be enjoyed I must be there to enjoy them. When I am split with guilt, I am rarely anywhere but with my anxieties, regrets and guilt. When I clearly see this fact, I will see the value of applying universal ethical standards to myself. Therefore, a value, universal or situational, is a value for me only when I see the value of the value as valuable to me' ­ Swami Dayananda Saraswati.`T`VALUE OF VALUES' FOR KNOWLEDGE WORKERSBy Debyani Sinha, Global Head ­ HR, Nucleus SoftwareDebyani boasts of having 20+ years of experience in the IT/ITeS industry during which she has held key positions across companies such as TCS, Onicra Credit Rating Agency of India, and UshaComm, prior to joining Nucleus Software in 2017.CXO INSIGHTSThe above quote gives us a good understanding of the importance of having values in an individu-al's life. The society is a reflection of these individ-uals put together. Values provide a person the sense of right and wrong or what ought to be when he/she is not under watch. A majority of the population in India and the world is currently, what Peter Drucker calls `knowl-edge workers'. The internet, the latest advances in robotics and technology, make us think that this trend is not only here to stay, but also to continue to rise for many years to come.The emergence of this new kind of work activi-ty, profoundly different from the traditional one and almost non-existent until just a few decades ago, brought-on a revolution of the first order on the na-ture of work, as it completely changes the meaning of the word `work'. Work is no longer what it was, and this change affects not only the way we work, but also the thought process and understanding of Values. If we talk about the evolution of IT, the late 90s is when it started to take-on the shape of an entire industry as compared to the niche technology for a select few. With the increased demand for IT spe-cialization skills, we saw a significant employment
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