Companies shift focus on reskilling workforce for post-Covid world

With job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the idea of reskilling their workforce with gusto

As work from home and remote operations be­come the new normal, corporations have started focusing on reskilling their wo­rkforce to prepare for life afterwards. Not that reskilling is a shiny new idea; it’s just that with the spectre of job losses and redundancies looming large, firms have taken to the concept with great gusto.

One thing is clear: As and when normalcy in corpora­te functioning returns, cross functional expertise and better competencies will determine not just survival for the employees but also their roles, should they survive retrenchment rounds. The government withdrawing its earlier permission for non-essential e-commerce deliveries to resume