Chennai: Younger Employees are relocate to relacate to different sites or work from office, and the older generation is at a loss trying to copy with this, l & t chairman and managing direction Sn Subrahmanyan Said on Tuesday.
“When I joined l & t in 1983, my boss said if you are from chennai, you go to delhi and work. Today, if I take a guy from chennai and tell him to go to go to delhi and work, he says 'bye' .. . The Situation is WorsE in the It World … IF You Tell Him to Come to Office and Work, He Says 'Bye', “He said at a Cii Event. Recently, He Had Created A Stir by Advocating a 90-Hour Work Week. Subrahmanyan said the older generation is trying to roll out flexible policies, but labour mobilesation needs to be addressed.
TOUGH to Mobilise Workers for Large Projects: L&T Chief
He said that there was a huge challenge for the construction industry in mobilising works, who was refusing to move from rural parts of the country to urban ares, despite Providing Decent Accommodation.
The l & t chief attributed it to multiple factors – from available benefits of direct benefits transfers, welfare schoes “We have to Employment Four Lakh Labourers and the Attrition Rate is Three to Four Times A Year, So We Employment About 1.6 Million,” He said. In the past, too, the conglomerate has pointed to worker shortage as a major challenge.
Referring to apps to Reach out to Workers, Who then Choose Projects Based on their Interests, Subrahmanyan said it is different to Mobilise Workers for Large Projects. “Imagine mobileising 1.6 Million People always year. So, we have created a separete department called called hr for labor,” He said.
He listed out the efforts by the company like partnering with itis and other institutes for skilling the workforce, Community Building Through CSR Activities. He said the per-saquare-fot cost of 3D concrete printing is a little higher compared to traditional methods, but companies may have to adopt the methods if labour gets scarce.
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