Welcome To The Team, Remotely
Diageo India considers its factories the backbone of its operations, so much so that all new recruits are taken on a half-day tour of the alcohol maker’s plant to give them a sense of what the company does. It’s a part of their two-day assimilation process where newcomers are brought together under one roof at the company’s headoffice in Bengaluru. But that was before the pandemic hit.
“When a new hire comes to one of our sites, a lot more than the conversation comes through. They see the factory and get to connect with the company, which is bigger than meeting just the interviewer on Zoom. How to get candidates excited about the company, the culture and opportunity without meeting the person now?” asks Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Aarif Aziz.
Covid-19 has thrust a large section of the white-collar workforce into remote working almost overnight. While many have eased into it over the past 15 months, there is a section of employees hired and onboarded entirely remotely that has never stepped into
