'India key to our strategy as global capability hub'

Judith Wiese, board member and chief people and sustainability officer at Siemens AG, cautioned that Germany will lose 15-20% of its workforce over the next decade due to demographics.

- Devina Sengupta

And this is why India is “central” to Siemens strategy of a capability hub. In an exclusive interaction with Mint, Wiese assuaged fears of Al-led layoffs, marked out workplace shifts since the pandemic and spoke on how data centres do guzzle energy, but that challenge needs to be dealt with responsibly.

Some things stayed since covid, especially hybrid work. In India and China, more employees prefer working from the office. In other regions, hybrid is common. What has fundamentally changed is the speed of Al adoption. Generative AI is a completely different ballgame.