Beyond the Desk
News from the World of Work
Hybrid Work
Trends redefining hybrid work.
Scyne Advisory’s break-up with PwC is almost complete, in a symbolic sense, with now only Adelaide to go after the firm recently moved on from its offices in Sydney and [...]
Professor Peter Cappelli authored an op-ed in HR Executive.…Read More [...]
A recent study found, in historically men’s spaces, like executive board rooms, people don’t perceive or detect the absence of women. [...]
Consortium headed up by GE Aerospace for NASA's EPFD research program has achieved the first high altitude, high voltage flight of a hybrid-electric aircraft [...]
Workplace Designs
Workplace Design updates.
IWFM has published a new Good Practice Guide, Space Planning and Management, which provides practica [...]
Worklife Balance
Wellness at Work Insights.
Developments in information and communication technologies have led to significant transformations in working life; in particular, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the remote working model has become a widespread form of [...]
That is the message from Craig Faucette, Chief Operating Officer at IRU member Trucking HR Canada. He says trucking companies are not facing the same shortage levels seen during and [...]
A growing number of Gen Z Australians are engaging with their superannuation decades before retirement, as financial pressures drive younger workers to plan earlier despite widespread uncertainty about their long-term [...]
AI at the Workplace
AI at Work: The HR Questions Companies Are Facing Now
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Mental Health at Work
Developments in information and communication technologies have led to significant transformations in working life; in particular, following the COVID-19 pandemic, the remote working model has become a widespread form of [...]
That is the message from Craig Faucette, Chief Operating Officer at IRU member Trucking HR Canada. He says trucking companies are not facing the same shortage levels seen during and [...]
A growing number of Gen Z Australians are engaging with their superannuation decades before retirement, as financial pressures drive younger workers to plan earlier despite widespread uncertainty about their long-term [...]
Future of Work
Formula Three: (Gen AI + VMVG Outcomes + L&D Agility) = The Future of Work
Anthony Raj and the Centre for Indigenous Architecture
“We must leave the built-site better than we found it.” This has been the foremost belief of the Centre for Indigenous Architecture and in almost all their projects they believe they have developed the site into a better place. Anthony…
Merging aesthetics and functionality – Rohan Haksar
RRH Design started out of Rohan Haksar’s interest in merging aesthetics and functionality. It is this philosophy which ensures that they innovate and design and that no two projects are even remotely the same. RRH Design, a boutique architectural studio, designs…
A BIG Thank you from Founder Sibani Sarma
A BIG thank you to the Speakers, Panelists, Sponsors, supporters and guests at Gallopper Talks 2018. I had never dreamt that my baby, Gallopper would grow up to give me such pride. I am completely overwhelmed just observing and absorbing the positive feedback…
Dance and Architecture are bound together for Rama Sane
“Any idea which is logically channelized with respect to its space is a positive design,” opines Rama Sane, an Architect and a Bharatnatyam Dancer. Rama follows her passion for performance with a creative outlook. She shares her views on not…
Maker’s Asylum: Where Ideas and Passion Collide
In a pre-Covid interview, workplace transformation expert Parthajeet Sarma engages in a conversation with Vaibhav Chhabra, founder of community makerspace Maker’s Asylum. The discussion revolves around the unique environment of Maker’s Asylum, where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together to…
Activity Based Working and being Employee Centric
In this conversation between Architect Rahul Kadam of NGK Studio and workplace transformation expert Sibani Sarma from Idream, they discuss the importance of activity based working in being ‘employee-centric’. This is from a series of conversations titled ‘Reframe’, presented by…
Hybrid Work Policies need to be Flexible
The concept of hybrid models of work has emerged from a need for flexibility. On the other hand, company policies are inherently not flexible. So, can employers really have policies that work for hybrid models of work? These are early…
Longitudinal cities limit lateral thinking and innovation : A hypothesis
Back in the nineties, I used to commute between my workplace at Churchgate in the southern tip of Mumbai and my home at Andheri West, far north of it, on a daily basis. Work started at 9 am. At 8.45…
A world not fragmented by narrow domestic walls – Dipen Gada
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls” – Rabindranath Tagore Mr. Dipen Gada, the principal designer and…
