5 culture tips | 'Bosses should be wary of tech as the panacea'

There is a widespread business understanding that technology is crucial to contemporary work. However, in these tech-enabled times, it can be easy to put other aspects of work behind the need to be digital.

Yet, most HR practitioners know this approach will create fundamental problems, if only because the other aspects of work are now so complex.

Innumerable reports describe new employee demands, rapidly shifting work cultures, increasingly diverse workforces and flexible work patterns as the status quo. Transformation, as one global media firm’s HRD recently told HR Grapevine, is now the base state.

As a result, there is pressure on HR to provide. Yet, according to Thomas Neal, Director at Corndel, an HR and L&D vendor, with specific expertise around the Apprenticeship Levy, HR, if it is savvy, could utilise this transformation technology to improve working practises and culture – specifically diversity and inclusion.