Creating A Future-ready Workforce
People Matters|May 2019

Priyanka Anand, Vice-President & Head of HR, Southeast Asia, Oceania & India, Ericsson, shares intriguing insights on Industry 4.0, employee reskilling, and the rise of next-gen technologies.

Mastufa Ahmed
Creating A Future-ready Workforce

Priyanka Anand is Vice President and Head, HR, Southeast Asia, Oceana, and India at Ericsson. In this role, Priyanka has the responsibility of leading HR strategy across markets such as India, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. She brings to the position a vast experience from her 19-year career, of which more than seven years have been with Ericsson. In her current role, she is leading an HR team of 60 resources spread over more than 10 countries & driving the HR strategy across the geography with around 9000 employees.

In an exclusive interaction with People Matters, Priyanka throws lights on Industry 4.0, employee reskilling, and the rise of next-gen technologies.

How has the role of HR evolved over the past few years?

Today, we are in the midst of a massive transition as we see the steady shift towards industry 4.0., putting us up against new challenges in workforce equations. Factors such as digitization, younger generations at the workplace and dynamic business-customer relationships have fundamentally changed the HR practitioners’ role. Emerging technologies have rendered the workplace “smarter” with increasing simplification of technologies as well as enhanced overall efficiency and productivity. At the same time, millennials are also driving changes in the way they view professional interactions as well as mobility opportunities. According to a PWC report, 71 percent of millennials expect and want overseas assignments which indicates a shift from a workforce being mobile to mobility being a need.

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