siliconindia | | June 20164I recently attended a conference where HRs were having a heated conversation on the globally changing work culture that have pushed the boundaries of the HR to think beyond the old school methods of retaining employees and engaging them. While I personally believe that it is not just the monetary benefit that keeps employees stick to an organization, it is now more on empowering them to be the owner of their work, providing a better work-life balance, work hour flexibility, onsite work opportunity, agility, nimbleness and others; my thoughts were seconded by the HRs in the conference. While there is a craze of joining startups by youngsters/freshers just out of the college, we see a lot of them handling critical positions within a short span of time. This is because of the kind of extensive training and on-the-job experience that most of the employees do not gain in multi-national corporates. While one of the HRs stated that it was freedom to take ownership of the project and decision for the same that ruled the chart, I was taken aback by what another HR uttered ­ the philanthropic and CSR activities by the organization are also playing an eminent role in attracting the minds that want not just to work but also to make a positive dent within the society. We also notice a huge shift in the way companies treat women employees. Today, female employees are given equal chances (if not better) to grow within the organization and are recognized as well. And bringing this shift is no big organization, but startups. Maternity leaves have been increased from three months to six months, along with extended leaves or work from home option. But these are just the upper surface of the pyramid. When scratched, we will see more innovative ways of dealing with employees from the startups that will change the course of looking at work. I believe biggies will follow their footsteps to retain their experienced people who are now packing their bags to make a shift to startups. Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialThe Change Makers of the Work Culture siliconindia Vol 4 · Issue 13 · June 2016 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Editor-in-Chief Pradeep Shankar Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Editorial Team Ananth. V Inslita R Teles Kavitha G Pushpita Das Sayani Mandal Subarna Saha Sujith Vasudevan Susila Govindaraj VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi PattarGM - Sales & Marketing Ratan Nayak Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit www.siliconindia.com/magazine-in or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com. Cover price is Rs.100 per issue.Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of Siliconmedia Technologies 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, Murigheshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2016 SiliconMedia Technologies 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. Rahul Visakh Prathyoosh Pratima Lal advertise@siliconindia.com Sr. Visualiser Ranjith C Visualisers Praveen C P Shravan Kashyap Group Art Director Ashok KumarDelhi NCRRatnamBranch ManagerCirculation Manager Magendran Perumal
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