Management Perspectives

Happy employees are engaged employees, resulting in increased productivity as well as lower absenteeism from work.

Traditionally, followers have been viewed as passive supporters, merely executing the directives of their leaders. However, this perspective is increasingly being challenged. The modern organizational landscape recognises that followers are not just subordinates; they are active participants who significantly influence organizational success.

Digital or not, most transformations do not cross the finish line. You might achieve your numbers for a while, but then people slip back to the old ways of working and nothing sticks, leaving you to solve the same problem again. In order to outdo poor transformation and engagement stats, we must manage to engage because the future of business is (still) people.

Summary: Work-life integration has evolved as an all-encompassing concept and is poised to be an inherent part of the new normal that is emerging. However, whatever pros it holds, it does come with its fair share of challenges as well.