8. Digital Workforce

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Remote work is having a significant influence on human resource management. Because of the pandemic scenario, many businesses are beginning to pay attention to the work-from-home notion. Employees are assigned objectives, and they must fulfill them within the time frame specified. The company must purchase remote control software from a vendor such as Microsoft teams (Strohmeier, 2020). 

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The employees then have access to their own workplace computer via their laptop. Then, using this technology, digitalize jobs may be readily carried out. When workers are engaged in their job, the HRM department must ensure that their logging and departing times, as well as their duties, are met. Because allowances must be allocated based on their employment duties. Furthermore, HR Professionals must collaborate with the organization's IT staff (Broth, 2020). If there is an issue with their connection, employees must notify it to HRM, and the relevant technology operator must be assigned to address it. 

Special staff activities and gatherings are also part of this approach. Because certain employees may be discouraged by this approach, it is the job of the HR department to actively interact with the employee team. Another important feature of remote working is that workers have ample time to work, and some employers request that they work at night as well (Henderson, 2017). The HR Professionals must then supervise their work while remaining in the plant via remote access. 

Currently, 57 percent of IT personnel operate in this manner. As a result, the HR department organizes certain discussion sessions and special activities to improve the workers' mental health. As a result, the HR department of the business must play a significant role as a coordinating party in this situation (Henderson, 2017).


References

Broth, J. (2020). 5 HR tools for successful business digital transformation [Online]. Available at: https://bigdata-madesimple.com/5-hr-tools-for-successful-business-digital-transformation/. Accessed on 07th April 2022.

Henderson, I., (2017). Human Resource Management for MBA and Business Masters. s.l.:Kogan Page.

Lund, S., Madgavkar, A., Manyika, J. and Smit, S. (2020). What’s next for Remote work: an Analysis of 2,000 tasks, 800 jobs, and Nine Countries. [online] www.mckinsey.com. Available at: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/whats-next-for-remote-work-an-analysis-of-2000-tasks-800-jobs-and-nine-countries. Accessed on 09th April 2022.

Strohmeier, S.(2020). Digital human resource management: A conceptual clarification. German Journal of Human Resource Management [ Online], Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2397002220921131.  Accessed on 10th April 2022.

Comments

  1. SudarshanaApril 20, 2022 at 6:54 PM

    Ya it's convenient to do the works 24 hours without travelling to office. But the difficulty is not enough signal coverage in our country

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 5, 2022 at 5:50 PM

      yes. Non availability of proper broadband coverage is a big barrier to serve employees for their companies with 100% output. Lot of signal interruptions and drop downs can be experienced.

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  2. Saugi DissanayakeApril 21, 2022 at 7:16 PM

    Creating this digital work fore will cost the company a lot of money. They must me provided with the necessary technical equipment (ex. :Laptop/ Tab or any smart device , internet Etc..) or paid an additional allowance for this and its difficult to get used to this technical knowledge at once in the lowest layer of an institution.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 5, 2022 at 5:53 PM

      Even though the initial investment cost is high, once it launch the operational cost can be reduce considerably. Requirement of space to manage staff will be get down. Utilization of power, water and other facilities will drop in the Org. So long run there is a positive financial impact for company.

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  3. Anuradha Charuni RathnayakeApril 22, 2022 at 9:42 AM

    A digital workforce can be large or small but must be able to grow or shrink on demand depending on business needs. A digital workforce is made up of all the technologies that employees within an organization use to complete work in a modern workplace.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 5, 2022 at 5:56 PM

      Yes, it is company responsibility give some technical know how by using training or any other suitable methods. How ever new generation more familiar with these technical terms.

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  4. IMAL BESHANApril 22, 2022 at 6:37 PM

    Remote work is having a significant influence on human resource management. Employees are assigned objectives, and they must fulfill them within the time frame specified. HR Professionals supervise their work while remaining in the plant via remote access. Currently, 57 percent of IT personnel operate in this manner.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 5, 2022 at 5:59 PM

      So, as you said the positive trend we can observed under this pandemic period. Being familiar with these things cerate more comfortable working environment for employees

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  5. Rumesh AbeyrathneApril 22, 2022 at 7:48 PM

    The digital transformation is the driving force behind the strategic and innovative use of technologies, and it is already changing the way and where work is done in many organizations. In anticipation of the influx of new generations into the workforce, information technology departments are prepared to fulfill their demands for frictionless, high-quality collaboration and communication.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 6, 2022 at 4:56 PM

      Not only the IT department but also the HR having duty to familiar and direct people to these new methods. Conducting training session is one of important duty of Training and development team. Also, even though the IT unit provide required background to shift companies digitalized environment, required other accessories facilities need to be supply to their employees.

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  6. K.DulanjaleeApril 22, 2022 at 9:38 PM

    According to my idea, Although there is an urgent need for a digital workforce organization, it is still difficult for some sections of the financial sector where I work to use it. Despite this labour value for corporate internal duties, it is difficult for some employees who deal with customers to adapt to this.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 6, 2022 at 4:59 PM

      Agreed. These digital work force not suitable for each and every sector. It may reduce the productivity of some organization. Specially customer oriented service has to proceed this manual methods. Most of matured or age more than 50s customers still would like to deal with these manual system. Hence we have to identify the suitability of these system according the business units.

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  7. sisirachandrasiriApril 25, 2022 at 4:26 PM

    In the face of the corona pandamic, many companies are moving towards the concept of working from home .This is also creating some distance. These institutes have provided the relevant technical tools. The work assigned by the employees should be done within the relevant time frame. This has created a very easy work environment for the workers. Also, everyone should make sure to make a note of digitization when reporting and leaving the service .This point is very well explained in this article.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 6, 2022 at 5:10 PM

      Thanks. Even we think work from home much easier than reporting to work place, for some special working sectors there are some other external factors may create barriers for employees to generate 100% output from their works. One of main difficulty is not having suitable working environment inside the house. There may be some interruptions can be occurred from family members. Specially babies. Some times we have to concentrate their works too.

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  8. Gayan SarathchandraMay 6, 2022 at 3:39 AM

    A Digital Workplace goes beyond the limits of a physical office. It provides for knowledge sharing and collaboration in many new and effective ways. It is a connected environment providing access to everything employees need with the help of digital technology.

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    1. Achinda GamageMay 6, 2022 at 5:06 PM

      Even under digital technology we can connected to resources required for proceed the job functions allocated by company some mental and motivational factors can not fulfil by it. That is one of negative impact under this digital workforce.

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