Last week’s Borderless Executive Live revealed how forward-thinking business leaders are making people’s lives better and more productive by incorporating the design of human-centric workplaces into their corporate strategies.
Sudhir Saseedharan, Tetra Pak’s Director of Workplace Experience & Future Working and Brett Hautop, LinkedIn’s Vice President of Workplace Experience are leading the way for two of the world’s leading corporations and creating phenomenal places where people choose to work. Watch or listen to the conversation with Andrew Kris, on Borderless Executive Live.
If you were to ask a random person on the street what an HR professional does, their answer would probably be conflict resolution, or that HR folks deal with employee salaries and benefits. And while that is part of an HR professional’s responsibilities — to ensure employee safety, respect and accountability — that doesn’t even scratch the surface.
With remote work destined for good to be a fixture of the modern workplace, almost half of companies are monitoring remote employees’ online activities. Monitored activity can include active work hours, websites visited, chats, and messaging logs. Almost a third (31%) of respondents said their employers are monitoring their computer screens in real-time.
Whatever the reason, people seem to be strongly craving a connection with their true selves and to bring more authenticity into their lives. There’s just one problem. There is no true self, at least not in any sense of the self that we can understand through science. We should seriously question the idea of authenticity as a meaningful construct in our lives.
