Let's Talk Worklife

In this week's episode we are going to explore or deep dive into the continuing debate around work from home or work from anywhere as against work from office. Now spotify announcing work-from-anywhere policy is old news, They introduced it around Feb 2021. But then one year, well a little more than one year later the CEO has made announcement their employee turnover has dropped after adopting that policy. So let's really check out what they did, how they did and how well they have made it work for them. What is the lesson for others if they wish to adopt it for their organisations.

Let's talk about loyalty. That thing old people have. Shall we?

What is loyalty?

Why is loyalty to orgs defined in tenure?

Can hikes buy employee loyalty?

What other factors contribute to employee loyalty?

If you have to imagine visually how population of men and women in workforce are in terms of count over decades..men's count would be like a wall, consistently the number keeps ups over years, assuming each year is one layer in that wall. On other hand count of woman in workforce has to imagined like a human pyramid, gradually reduces over year, and thins at the top  or reduces over years.

In this scenario of woman in workforce thinning over years, how do companies get woman into leadership positions? And when they do, is there any inherent downfall in the plan? Is it sustainable? When women are encouraged to become leaders with all sorts of inclusive and mentorship program by companies, but that isn't backed up by healthy numbers at all levels - how will it be effective?

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In this episode we are going to take a look at that "that eye popping pay rise" that's hitting India Inc and which is also the reason behind "Great resignation" in India.

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Hello and welcome to the 7 th episode of Let talk worklife. In this episode we are going to talk about the important career trap woman should avoid. When you say Sloth - the one thing that pops up is the slowness, now do you know why Sloths move slowly?They do it for a very simple reason: survival. The way Sloth has learnt to adopt by being very slow and Survive  in the animal kingdom, many working woman have learnt to be in Survival mode for a very long time in work life. However unlike Sloth where that survival mode is a live saver, for working woman survival mode for a long time is a career trap.

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Hello and welcome to the sixth episode of Let's talk work life.

Office spaces are opening up, now the question is like do we want to really go back to work. Many of us if not all of us have gotten used to the to new ways of working, i.e working from home. Now at the close of pandemic, the general view is the hybrid model is here to stay meaning a mix of work from home and work from office.

But how will Indian industries adopt. Will they adopt hybrid model?

It's one of the difficult questions woman have to answer and justify. And if you are a new mother who took break and want to come back the question is even harder to be answered and justified.

Why do we want to work.

In this episode we try to understand how to approach the answer to the question by touching on sense of identity and sense of self worth.

Work life is often compared to drudgery - right or wrong it's probably because over the years we tend to do the same work again and again. Even when you get promotion or change companies, there is a certain amount of "the usual factor" to it.

How do you make work fun in such environment.

Learn from the kids. Here in this episode we discuss how to take cue from a child's behavior and emulate it in our workplace

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DivHERsity publised  - a Benchmarking Report 2020-2021 -An analysis of the 2020 report shows that there has been no increase in women participation in workforce as compared to 2019, which stands at 34%. The report also highlights that the gender gap exists at all levels of the talent pipeline for women, and it widens as they move towards senior management/CEO levels.  - which isn't surprising.

Here in this episode - we explore the three main factors in the context of work environment established in the job market that acts as hurdles for women coming back to workforce.

1 - Imagery of lack of worklife balance

2 - Lost network connectivity

3 - Interview process and support system

Pretty privilege - now what is that ?  You ve never heard that word before ? Then in this episode you'll learn about it. You've heard about it but you don't believe you never had that advantage? Check the episode, you might want to rethink that belief...especially in the context of workplace.