#269: Navin Patel on planning employees work-life balance and leveraging technology to bridge the employee experience

On this episode of The Shape of Work, our guest talks about building an employee experience strategy and gives advice on leveraging technology to bridge the employee experience.

“There should be a limit to which you adopt the technology. While it's all fancy, I think they can definitely never please the human element.”

We welcome Navin Patel, Global Talent Acquisition Head at Affine- a leading Consulting Firm that delivers Analytics-driven enterprise transformation.

Navin is a Talent Acquisition expert and an innovative strategic thinker with a progressive career in a dynamic, multicultural, diversified and matrix organisation. With strong experience in various leadership roles within the Talent Acquisition domain for over 15 years and overall 19 years of experience, carries a good blend of experience and exposure gained from TA Ops, Talent Sourcing, Recruitment Delivery, and strategizing staffing plans with the leadership. 

Episode Highlights

• Building blocks of employee experience strategy
• The work environment expectation of the millennials
• The challenges in moving from one remote culture to a hybrid model
• Key advice to leaders planning for employee work-life balance
• Advice on leveraging technology to bridge the employee experience

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Produced by: Priya Bhatt
Podcast Host: Abijith Kanthadai

About Springworks:

Springworks is a fully-distributed HR technology organisation building tools and products to simplify recruitment, onboarding, 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 platforms 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.