Sigmund Freud said happiness depends on our ability to love and work. For decades, "work" typically entailed a home-work-home concept, confined to the four walls of an office cubicle. Fast forwarding to present day, work is no more a place where you go every day, but is rather something you do. Work is something that moves with you and lets you connect and communicate through mobile workspaces. As long as you feel motivated, work can be accomplished from anywhere. With disruptive technologies like IoT leading the change, the new age workforce has broken free from the shackles of a 9 - 5 existence and moved to digital workspaces, thus changing the fundamental nature of work.

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THE CHANGING PARADIGMS OF WORK PLACE
Varun Kesavan, Research Scholar, E – Mail Id – varunkesavan@yahoo.com
INTRODUCTION
Sigmund Freud said happiness depends on our ability to love and work. For
decades, "work" typically entailed a home-work-home concept, confined to the
four walls of an office cubicle. Fast forwarding to present day, work is no more
a place where you go every day, but is rather something you do. Work is
something that moves with you and lets you connect and communicate
through mobile workspaces. As long as you feel motivated, work can be
accomplished from anywhere. With disruptive technologies like IoT leading the
change, the new age workforce has broken free from the shackles of a 9 - 5
existence and moved to digital workspaces, thus changing the fundamental
nature of work.

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MOVING BEYOND THE CUBICLE
Modern-day professionals have become highly mobile, and workplaces too
have moved in this direction; bidding farewell to the traditional office cubicle.
The ability to access data and work applications on any personal handheld
device ensures that not a minute of productivity is compromised. The concept
of work from home, tele-commuting, remote working and outstation work has
made in-house coordination and communication a much smoother and
seamless process for the new-age employees. Additionally, a large number of
organizations are now providing their employees flexibility in terms of policy
changes with the advent of mobile technologies. Having said that, what
remains constant is the importance of ensuring a secure infrastructure within
which data is managed. While the approach to security may differ based on
the scale and nature of the business, it remains the responsibility of the IT
teams to ensure that the organizations' security posture remains intact.
SHIFTING BUSINESS MODELS
With most enterprises adopting disruptive technologies one by one, the shift
towards newer operational paradigms is irrefutable. Considering the mammoth
proportion of changes the industry is undergoing, organizations are struggling
to rapidly adopt newer technologies and deliver productivity gains while
simultaneously fighting a battle with the new disruptive competitors. The
struggle to equip oneself and optimize results utilizing these advanced
technologies is real and felt across. In a bid to accelerate their pace of growth,

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enterprises are transitioning towards a 'connect-and-collaborate' structure with
the right policies in place to promote the right corporate culture. This structure
allows people to work in tandem with machines and produce results that have
combined capabilities. A progressive business structure like this allows
organizations to strategize based on internal skills and capabilities and carve
out the best possible outcome for business growth.
DIGITAL NATIVES VS. TRADITIONAL STALWARTS
The workplace today is more divided than it has ever been. Most mature
organizations have employees spread across 5 generations with varying
levels of dexterity when it comes to using and leveraging technology. In light
of digitization becoming the new norm, enterprises are now moving towards
integration of a multi-generational workforce. The younger workforce
constitutes 'digital natives' who view work as an activity rather than a location.
They are handy with the software and tools allotted to them and can work
around them with ease. On the other hand, older employees who have been
accustomed to traditional tools and have recently hopped onto the digital
revolution bandwagon, will transition at a slower pace. Simplifying technology
and delivering it in an easy to use format has been universally recognized as
driver for greater adoption, productivity and widespread adoption.

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CHANGING MINDSETS
A huge step organizations have had to take in order to drive the success of
the future of work and flexible workspaces, has been moving away from the
current model of "management through supervision" to a result based model.
This means more delegated decision making and empowerment opportunities
for employees. In order to enforce this, leaders are working with their
employees to bring in systems that ensure performance is being measured on
the number of hours logged in and not on physical presence. In parallel,
leaders are also equipping themselves to adapt HR strategies to create an
environment conducive to smoother business operations, to attract, engage,
and retain employees and tap into undiscovered talent pools. This shift is also
meant to drive more opportunities for business growth.