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Workplace imbalance hurting, expect employee engagement in 2023: Experts

With resignations and layoffs dominating trends post-Covid, HR leaders anticipate focus on employee engagement, hybrid work model and greater tech investment to improve efficiency

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Fundamental questions like focus on identifying top talent, retaining and growing that pool, improving the effectiveness of performance systems, and making workplaces fairer and more equitable do not change with business cycles

Akshara SrivastavaRitwik Sharma New Delhi
Workplace imbalance has been the reigning theme since the start of the pandemic. In the early months of the pandemic came the great sacking.

Then, the great resignation and quiet quitting. Moonlighting followed. Just when it seemed it had become an employees’ market, came another great shakeup — it was back to the great sacking, which had employees turning to career cushioning.

Two months into 2023, is it possible to gaze into the future to assess how office life might look like in the months to come? Perhaps, yes.

“I think the great resignation was the most impactful trend that will shape the