Decades ago, while working for a Japanese company, I read about the idea of lifetime employment. At the time I was aware of career professionals in tech companies. For instance, I would meet with career IBMers – professionals who have worked for only one company, IBM, for majority of their career. In the case of Japan, lifetime employment was the practice of hiring workers directly out of school and retraining them until the mandatory retirement age. The idea was that it is far easier to train current employees on new skills, new ways of working, etc. These days, of course, one’s career prospects are influenced by many factors most important by the value one contributes to his job, his team, and the company as a whole. Lifetime employment is a rarity if it exists today.The world of work has changed significantly. Prior to 2020, concepts like mobility, job satisfaction, ability to work in a team, thinking-out-the-box were priced attributes by employers and employees. Deloitte also acknowledged that even before the COVID-19, changes in the workplace were occurring, influenced in part by automation, algorithms driving decision-making, digital methods, agile and new ways of working.In this PodChats for FutureCIO, Indranil Roy, executive director at Deloitte Southeast Asia Human Capital Consulting, describes the many pathways organisations can take to achieve resilience, relevance and innovation in 2022 and beyond.QUESTIONS1. Deloitte suggests that employees bring their own motivation to the workplace, even suggesting having a sense of autonomy or control over the choices we make. What then is the role of the manager in support of their staff’s sense of autonomy?2. Can these 10 rules of modern work apply to situations such as a pandemic where uncertainty is the norm?3. Teams have always been a central fixture of the workplace. How different, and important, is networking in the modern workplace (Rule #6)?4. How does one publish ideas where the organisational culture neither encourages or promotes such practices. Do you suggest using public social platforms? Would this approach risk a person’s career?5. So many rules. Where do I start? Do I go with the easiest? Do I do all of them?6. Do I allow myself to be stumped by a rule and not move forward?

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