Emerging trends in workplace

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Emerging trends in workplace
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In today’s era, the complexities of the business have increased because of the
introduction of globalisation and increased competition among the firms. Increase in the
competition has developed the emerging needs of the organization to implement change in
the organization procedures and policies, which will help the company in sustaining its
competitive advantage and expand its market share. Moreover, the change in the organization
structure is positive for the organization but can create dissatisfaction among the workforce
and lower the retention rate of the employees. Change at the workplace has both the negative
as well as positive impact. The following essay will depict the emerging trends at the
workplace and the challenges and the opportunities for the employees and the employer
(Hajkowicz et al, 2016).
According to Kohler and Woodard (2014), the trends that emerge the need to in
building the changes in the Australian workplace are the development of the innovative
technology, which requires a more skilled workforce to understand the automation and
increase the productivity of the organization. Adoption of comprehensive technological
methods leads to incubation of the fresh talent who will be able to compete in changing the
environment and will able to satisfy the needs of the customer. The shift to smart work has
led to a reduction in employment of the labour workforce because the work is being
automated and reducing the demand for labour.
Supporting to above views, Peter Wilson depicts that the changing technology and the
increased competition is the major reason for developing changes in the Australian
workplace. The workplace in Australia is more focusing on the causal workers and non-
standardised working hours and involving the flat structures of the organization to enhance
the productivity of the organization. Innovation in the technologies has led the companies to
closely examine the workings of the workforce and emerge the changing needs (Christensen,
K., & Schneider, 2015).

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Nowadays the companies are developing a hyper-connected workplace by using
innovative communication tools such as instant messenger and online collaboration to
improve the productivity of the organization (Hogan, 2016).
Introduction of globalization has led to increase in the mobility of the workforce,
which creates the threat for the companies as the job security of the workforce is reduced and
the changes in the demographic factors are the major trend in the organizational structures of
Australia. There is involvement of four generations at the workplace. Such differences in the
demographic factors lead to a difference in perception of the workforce and create the threat
of conflict in the organizations (Young et al, 2015).
The strategies of the human resource management are diversified because of the
implications of the changing trends at the workplace of Australia. The recruitment and the
retention of the workforce has become more complex because the young workforce is highly
equipped with the skills which in turn increases their expectations from the organization and
the fulfilment of the expectations by the companies becomes difficult which in turn creates
the danger of retention of the talented workforce (Pilati et al, 2015).
The HR planning has become more complex because of the changing trends in the
environment it develops the need to effectively plan the requirement of the employees
because it ensures that a right number of people are employed at the right time. It is analysed
that implementation of the changing trends in Australia has led to increasing in the job losses
because the of automation of the machines has decreased the demand of the labour and the
use of innovative technology makes the production process more complex which creates a
problem for the workforce to understand the process. For improving the employee
engagement, it emerges the need for the organizations to efficiently design the job structure