The last two years of Covid-19 pandemic saw multiple changes in the Human Resource (HR) domain. This was at the local, national and global levels. The trouble is, with the confusion, which a phrase like “global HR” makes, reference to global HR is often a generalization of experiences of select part of the English- speaking world. But blinkers that many people wear allow them to see change only in important sectors, not always in the sectors that sustain them.
Globally, one is looking at a small window. In reality, the world is bigger than our own. The corporate sector is a small percentage of the employability scenario. The data which people work on is often drawn only from this sector. Thus it is that generalization gets based on perceptions. There is no need to quarrel with this, but there is a need to understand that the word “global” is being used in a loose sense.
There are other problems of definition and understanding. When one talks of employ-ability, one needs to keep in mind that a large part of the rural and agricultural sector...
