How do you see the performance and rewards systems landscape across organisations at present?
MM The current landscape of performance and reward systems is heavily influenced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Most organisations adopted a very fluid approach during the two years of the pandemic, let go of their usual performance and reward norms and put a greater emphasis on flexibility, adaptability, and understanding of the unique challenges employees were facing in a remote, WFH and flexible work environment. Then there was a huge attempt to get the hybrid model right by all organisations and a talk to use flexibility to redesign work for sustainable high performance. Organisations tried to come up with the most productive combination of time and location for the employees. They didn’t want a scenario which would have a divided culture where people who spend more time in the office are valued and others who worked remotely and didn’t spend more time in office became invisible.
Hence, it became...