#167: Amrit Jaidka Arora on creating an exceptional employee experience, hiring for 'culture fit', and fostering equality, empowerment in the workplace

“Hire people who believe in your company values but yet make sure the hiring decision is prejudice-free.”

On this episode of The Shape of Work podcast, our guest is Amrit Jaidka Arora, Head Human Resource at Digit Insurance - an online general insurance company that offers various non-life insurance products covering your car, bike, travel, home, and mobile.

With an experience of over 10 years in the HR space and having worked with giants like Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd. and Hindustan Times, Amrit covers a lot of interesting aspects in this episode.

We discuss with Amrit:

• Remote Onboarding: Ways to create an exceptional employee experience
• Organizational culture and its impact on employee performance
• Empowering employees: Meaning, benefits, and ways to do it
• How to hire an employee for cultural fit?
• What’s more important: Performance vs Cultural fit
• How to foster an environment of equality in the workplace

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast host: Junius Dsilva

About Springworks:
Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation that is building tools and products to simplify recruitment, on-boarding, employee engagement and retention.

The product stack from Springworks includes:
SpringVerify — B2B verification platform
EngageWith — employee recognition and rewards platform that enriches company culture
Trivia — a suite of real-time, fun and interactive games platform for remote/hybrid team-building
SpringRole — verified professional-profile platform backed by blockchain, and
SpringRecruit — a forever-free applicant tracking system

Springworks prides itself on being an organisation focused on employee well-being and workplace culture leading to a 4.8 rating on Glassdoor for the 200+ employee strength company.

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