‘Skilling, reskilling key to adapt to tech changes at workplace’

‘Skilling, reskilling key to adapt to tech changes at workplace’

Ahmedabad, October 8 Skilling and reskilling will help employees navigate technological changes taking place across industries and workplaces, according to human resource experts.

Technological development, including blockchain, artificial intelligence, data science, and machine learning, are bringing major changes across industries. Skilling and reskilling will help train employees for the future, Sripada Chandrasekhar, Professor (OB & Strategic Human Capital) at the Indian School of Business said.

Addressing a conference on ‘Future of work: Navigating the Change’ organised by Adani Institute of Infrastructure over the weekend here, he said, “While these changes might lead to extinction of some jobs, they will also produce many new kind of jobs in the field of green economy, governance for digital society, among others.”

Sanjay Kotha, Joint President and Group CIO at Adani Group, said the progress in technology will lead to artificial intelligence-powered robots working with humans, and digital dexterity will become very important.

“There are rapid changes taking place in workplaces and the objective behind organising the conference was to get diverse views from across the industries on how to handle the changes and address issues, including human emotions, in the age of machines,” said Devang Desai, Dean of Adani Institue of Infrastructure.

Source | Business Line | 9^th October 2019

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