health awareness sessions and regular townhalls with leadership which we believe has have helped instil a sense of togetherness as all of us traverse through crisis gauging the current trends companies will surely continue to pay more attention to role and skillsbased hiring while they are already reaping benefits of being an inclusive and flexible workplace there is no doubt or debate that the future of work is hybridskilling reskilling upskilling talent a lot has changed in the last 20 months the future of work is already here the changes that most businesses anticipated would take at least five years have made headway into the workforce business leaders have practised the art of striking a balance between reskilling and utilising the existing skills of employees thereby increasing efficiency digital training modules inhouse and outsourced have come as a boon for scaling up the skilling gamemoreover allocating talent more dynamically has been immensely beneficial for starters it has broken silos to encourage both inter and intrateam exchange of ideas thus fuelling knowledgesharing to approach problemsolving collectively having a diverse group of people working in a team has further scaled employee output with the newgeneration genz entering the workforce in the last couple of years employees have also had to upskill them for the job as digital natives they have been quick learners who are more than willing to skill up compared to the learning habits of the previous generation of the work forcecompanies across sectors have learned and unlearned processes to build back better by adapting to the trends emerging out of the pandemic to honing existing talent they have realised the importance of nurturing talent right from the point of hiringthe writer is partner and head people performance culture kpmg in india