Next-Gen Workplaces: Has The Pandemic Offered Us Lessons?

The webinar titled “Technologies creating next-gen workplaces’’ brought together experts from high-profile industries to understand the current developments, latest technologies, and the challenges in the industry, the insightful session covered all the various facets of the future of workplaces.

- Mili Majumdar

Sustainability has been buzzword in creating efficient workspaces till the pandemic caught us unaware. Now, as we are contemplating commuting to office or, work in a hybrid mode where our homes double up to function as office, the next Gen workspaces need to have more attributes namely resiliency wellness and equity. Technology has proven to be a life saver during the pandemic. Need for touchless or remote operations with seamless connectivity, enabling future ready operations ensuring health and productivity bridging gender gap are new norms in addition to being mindful of efficiency of operations. We are aware of the technological interventions in terms of IoT-connected smart technologies in a building – from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (hvac) to smart plugs, to security systems – can be controlled by cutting-edge digital solutions and software and powered by green electricity. This is when buildings will be able to attain superior levels of energy efficiency, creating truly digital, productive and connected workspaces.

The panel discussion brought together top industry leaders who shared their takeaways from the pandemic and how they plan to get back their staff to offices and resume operations with necessary changes. Needless to say, technology shall be the heart of resumed operations with health and wellness being the soul of workplaces.

PANEL SPEAKERS

• Manish Bahl, Head of the Centre for the Future (cFOW) of Work, Asia Pacific, Cognizant

• Jagvinder Pinny Mann, Senior Portfolio Manager-India, Microsoft

• Vikas Chawla, India Operations Director, Employee & Workplace Solutions, Adobe

• Bhupesh Arora, Business Head, Digital Energy, Schneider Electric