Whether at war or maintaining the peace, human resources make all the difference.

Often, it is a hairline fracture that crosses the threshold and the gap is not the resource but the lack of humaneness in it. So far, the approach towards it has been limited only by the depth of its understanding in context to the shifts in attitude by new and emerging audience types.

Historically, employees have been evaluated on the basis of the relevance to position. This has undergone a sea change because the outlook to desired position has come under question.

Either the position has broken into several parts or the new avataar has not been factored in keeping with employee expectations, outlook, depth of exposure and proactive support system's.

The lack of alignment (from employee perspective) has serious consequences. Over the years it has built up and post Covid the impact is striking and worrying.

In Japan, a phenomenon called HIKIKOMURI* (social withdrawal) has been noted.

• 1.5 million people of working age are living as social recluse.
• 20% of cases attributed to Covid
• 30,000 people between ages 10 and 69 surveyed.
• 2% of people aged 15-62 affected by HIKIKOMURI
• Among people in 40-64 age range said their behaviour had been triggered by leaving their jobs.
• Anxiety, depression, social phobia, pressures of modern society and high academic expectations noted as causal.

This is one country, west facing, that is undergoing a tectonic shift. Imagine the rest of the world grappling with similar issues.

A conscious effort to look at business from an employee - human - resource understanding is necessary and a lot of drilling down will be required to ensure that businesses stay, grow and contribute.

For starters, let it be known that the employee is also a consumer with behavioral traits that rub on at the work place who is also human and thus not viewed only as a a mere source to meet immediate business need.

The world came to a stop not because of the lack of resources but the humaneness in it.

It is time that business is brought into context. Else, it will not be human resource at play, rather an attempt at merely re-sourcing it. The writing is on the wall.

Article by: Author: S. N. Moorthy