Future of Work: What is your "Work Forward" Strategy? Virtual Working Group

Future of Work: What is your Work Forward Strategy? Virtual Working Group
April 26, 2022 | 12:00 1:30 pm ET

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Work life as we know it has changed dramatically over the past two years. More companies have moved to hybrid or remote work models than ever before. Companies have been challenged to find the right approach to keep their employees safe in the workplace while balancing individual choice around vaccines and masks. Employees are thinking about work differently and have more desire to rethink their careers in this employee-friendly labor market. All of this has provided a big opportunity for companies to think differently about work in the short term. The hard part has been implementing a longer-term strategy given the constantly evolving nature of the COVID variants. This working group is aimed not as how companies are managing things through COVID, but what your work forward strategy will be.

Beth Flynn-Ferry, Executive Director of CAHRS and Usha Kakaria-Cayaux, Vice President, Chief of Staff to CHRO at Estee Lauder Companies will facilitate this discussion. Some of the questions that will help guide the discussion include:

What is your longer-term work model plan?
How are you re-architecting roles and sourcing the talent and capabilities to support this?
What talent models are you using to build flexibility and agility into your workforce?
What does it mean for your culture and value proposition?
How do you plan to communicate and engage employees in this?

Attendees to these sessions vary based on the focus of the session but would include Senior Leaders in the areas of HR Strategy, HR Transformation or Chief of Staff to the CHRO.

Prior to the session, attendees should give some thought to the questions included in the description, so they are prepared to share with the group. We also strongly prefer that participants be on camera during the session to allow for more engaging interaction. If for some reason after you sign up for the working group, something comes up (especially while many of us are working from home), it would be great to receive even a last-minute e-mail advising us that you cannot attend as we sometimes have a waiting list.