Analytics India Magazine 

By Richa Bhatia

Technological disruptions such as advances in machine learning and robotics have automated existing jobs in sectors such as manufacturing, retail and food production. With changing business models the employees now require different core skill sets. A 2017 All India Council for Technical Education report found that over 60 percent of eight lakh engineers graduating from engineering institutions across the country remain “unemployable” each year.

The Week

By Nachiket Kelkar  

Kaushik Basu, the former chief economic adviser to the government of India, has raised concerns on the state of India’s jobs market and has also called for improving education standards, where we have slipped in rankings.

People Matters 

“There are two competing forces that are impacting the world of HR. On the one hand, the rate of social and business changes is accelerating, resulting in an ever more complex business environment. On the other hand, employees are pushing for even simpler, more engaging, and human-like experience from their enterprise applications. For HR to survive, they will need to leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robots, and chatbots to support rapid business changes while delivering a superior employee experience.” says Emily He, Senior Vice President, HCM Product Marketing, Oracle

People Matters 

Technology has fundamentally altered human interaction in the digital age. It has also made information accessible, work more fluid and opened up new opportunities. The excessive use of technology has also created a numbing effect – with people spending a majority of their time on their devices. Within HR, technologies are being implemented at every stage of the employee lifecycle from pre-hire to post-retire. Prospective candidates have access to information about a company’s brand.

Fortune India 

By Debjyoti Gosh

Industry body Nasscom believes close to 40% of the information technology (IT) and outsourcing workforce in the country needs reskilling over the next five years to keep pace with newer technologies. Bengaluru-based Simplilearn, which provides online certification courses in emerging digital domains such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, cybersecurity and cloud computing, is bullish on the increasing demand for preparing the existing and future workforce to be industry ready.

The Pioneer 

With an advancement of technology through Artificial Intelligence (AI) that taps the ability of machines to mimic human thought and thought-based activity, there is a wide range of tools that can make the teaching-learning process a lot more fun and effective. From Machine Learning (ML), computer vision or image processing to robotics, natural language processing, neural networks and deep learning, AI encompasses many specific areas of research and application that can play a big role in revamping the education sector.

ET Tech 

It’s becoming more and more apparent to all of us, with each passing day that workplaces/offices don’t work the way they used to 10 years ago. How, where and who we work with is being radically altered by the technological revolution. Earlier, employees/workers had to adapt to their workplace, but now workplaces are adapting to them and the kind of work they need to accomplish. The physical workplaces are fading, and we now think of work as an activity rather than a place.