Tech, new recruits shape evolving HR hiring trends

Need to acquaint large size of pandemic-era hires with company culture driving the change, say executives

The fast-changing technology landscape and hiring trends are nudging industry executives to take a fresh look at how they hire.

This has been accentuated by the need for culture assimilation for the large size of recruitments undertaken during the pandemic, said HR executives at Business Standard's BSmart HR Conclave in Mumbai on Wednesday.

"Flexibility is no more a benefit, but a commodity. The workforce aspirations are changing. It's our mindset, it is not that employee work is not happening if you don't see it," said Rajkamal Vempati, head of human resources at Axis Bank, which operates workforce on a hybrid model.

The bank's pilot project of posting 50 freelance jobs with a remote work option during the pandemic attracted more than 50,000 applications, Vempati explained.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), however, has been urging the workforce to return to office.

DP Nambiar, vice-presidentHR, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), said the need to assimilate new hires with the company's ethos and culture, is driving the software major's work from office (WFO) approach.