rest of employees are short and it calls for authenticity to make them meaningful it can be a simple but genuine how are you or taking time and effort to give an employee valuable feedback and advice it can also be about complimenting people on the quality of their recent work or remembering to enquire about a family member the impact of such kindness is amazingly hugesimilarly meetings and team huddles be they in person or virtual are excellent platforms and spread kindness they occur regularly and offer relevant opportunities to connect with empathy and positive affirmationrandstad indias report the future of work has revealed that virtual work is the preferred mode for consulting firms technical service providers and digital media even for companies with static work requirements such as banking hospitality healthcare infrastructure and manufacturing while 100 virtual working cannot be a reality it will hover in the range of 3050in such a redefined normal of hybrid work structures hr and leadership teams must bring in measures to integrate kindness intentionally into the workplace culture create a safe workplace that empower employees to be themselves at work with confidence and without the fear of criticism enable the organisation to share information and create constructive dialogue with respect create opportunities for kindness through effective engagement policies and dedicated kindness calendars provide managers the resources and tools to support and celebrate a kindness culturecreating a culture of kindness is an investment that can bring tremendous meaning in our professional lives its cascading effect is immense as it encourages the payback of kindness to create outcomes of productivity efficiency collaboration and innovation which are just the right ingredients for happiness at workthe writer is chief people officer randstad india