MAY 2021HR TECH OUTLOOK APAC9Adapting Virtual LifeWe can expect pandemic will over soon but believe me if work remotely will remain and preferable. What organizations need to do is accepting virtual life as the new normal work environment. For some industry it might not relevant for now but potentially become the game changer if you can take the first mover advantage in your industry. Virtual Job fairs, ATS and online interview will be very familiar to do, virtual onboarding experience will also become important stage of an employee journeys, LMS and virtual training also replacing the limited classroom capacity, chat-bot will relevant for HR services and self-service app with geofencing and facial recognition ability will also being use globally. The seamless employee experience will be very relevant to be discussed in any HR forums. Work-Life HarmonyIt will also become a trend, where most organization try to harmonize their employee productivity with their personal life. It will be challenging situation for employees, hence organization need to proactively support their team with some new flexibility and tolerances. In the meantime Performance Management System will play a pivotal role to measure individual contribution and ensure the optimum productivity.As we need more people with self-starter attribute who can work with minimum supervision as per their given goals. Leadership levels also need to adopt some technology which can assist them in monitoring and controlling their team performance. With the increase of work-life harmony, the artificial Intelligent (AI) will also become basic required feature for any organization in the future.Employee EngagementEmployee engagement will be in a risk if we are just focusing on the virtual life. As people tend to work independently, they are still a human who need social interaction and emotional touch. Here HR team need to enhance their ability and adopting some broadcasting skillset, and no wonder in the future HR event, teambuilding and year-end party will conducted via online. We can save and reallocate huge accommodation and traveling budget as we can conduct virtual event globally at the same time. Human interaction might transform into digital format through company social media channel where employee interaction and recognition can be delivered virtually.At the end, we are live in a borderless world, geographically, professionally, and personally. This pandemic and the new technology might dramatically change our organizational landscape or even our personal life. One thing should remain is our sense of humanity, to prove ourselves as human being. As people tend to work independently, they are still a human who need social interaction and emotional touch Adi Kurniawan
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