CIPM Sri Lanka – the Nation’s leader in human resource management announced a line-up of 53 international and 11 local speakers including Chairpersons, CEOs, and General Managers of top Sri Lankan blue-chip companies together with leading academics in Sri Lanka who will share their knowledge and insights at the World HR Congress 2021. The World […]
Kazuo Yano attends a news conference in June 2020 in preparation for the establishment of the new company Happiness Planet Ltd. at the headquarters of Hitachi Ltd. in Tokyo. (Provided by Hitachi Ltd.)
The ideal employee: happy, and therefore more productive. But how can bosses tell if the staff are indeed happy?
It s all in the moves, says Kazuo Yano, whose company, Happiness Planet Ltd., developed a wearable sensor it says assesses happiness by monitoring a staff member s body movements.
Yano hit on the idea of measuring people’s happiness levels with acceleration sensors while working at Hitachi Ltd.
Acting on the thought that “people move their bodies in the same way when feeling happy and those motions can be gauged objectively,” Yano and his colleagues started a service that numerically ranks a person s quality of life and began offering it to businesses through their own company.
Exploring digital transformation in the new normal at the Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2021 Southeast Asia Online
published : 13 Jan 2021 at 16:30
SPONSORED CONTENT Group photo session from Hitachi Social Innovation Forum 2020 BANGKOK.
Photo credit: Hitachi Asia
We live in an ever-growing, ever-changing world. The disruption that COVID-19 brought to economies and societies across Southeast Asia in 2020 accelerated widespread digital adoption and made everyone realise that embracing a digital-first future is necessary for survival.
Yet, many questions remain as we prepare to step into this new digital frontier. How will digital transformation shape our new normal? What does it mean to live in ‘smart’ cities and be part of a ‘smart’ society? How does digitalisation lead to a more sustainable world?