People Matters Magazine May 2021: Empowering ‘Experience’

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>> Tom Ricks

Developing a data-driven remote work strategy? As more businesses accept the shift to long-term remote work, they will also need to develop new management strategies

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t has been a year since businesses were forced to adapt to the way people were being managed overnight. According to a recent Vodafone study, more than half of businesses surveyed in Asia Pacific (APAC) accelerated their digital transformation plans due to COVID-19. While these businesses are now on track to becoming future-proof, the rush-order integration of modern technologies at a massive scale

has also led to a sudden volume of data for organizations to process. HR departments are working around the clock to ensure that the existing huge volumes of data collected are properly organized, analyzed, and processed to enable employees to make better business decisions. The question looms: what more can HR departments do to keep tabs on the ever-changing needs of the workforce and safeguard employees’ mental well-being during the pandemic? Being able to gather up-to-date, real-time data is a key starting point, but the real answer lies in how you make use of this data to trigger immediate actions.

Strengthen HR processes with data visualization

Visualizing data brings perspective, context, and comparison of information to employees at one glance. Humans are conditioned to recognize and understand trends and correlations through visualizations better than 94

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