Quantum technology: how it can increase employee engagement and productivity

Everyone has a plan. Of course, that’s until a once-in-a-hundred-year global pandemic strikes, changing our priorities and the way we think and work. We witnessed and are currently experiencing the ‘great reset’: a shift in agenda where businesses had to completely reassess traditional thinking to accommodate hybrid working, employee wellbeing, Work from Anywhere (WFA) cultures, virtual events, meetings and other practices that have become the new reality.

Paradigms set in the pre-pandemic era are eroding from the minds of employees, who are now seeking a better work-life balance. Employers, in turn, are examining different ways to best tackle the ‘reset’.

For example, some Australian companies are participating in a global experiment to change the century-old Monday to Friday workweek model by reducing it to four days’ work for five days’ pay. This is just an example of the new employee-first post-pandemic role, as HR leaders drive initiatives focused on employee engagement, productivity and mental health.

Quantum technology

For companies like HCLTech, the reset has helped recognise the ability of one of science’s newest advances: quantum technology, to increase employee engagement and productivity. Quantum technology is helping shift people management practices more toward skilling initiatives, employee wellbeing, and attracting and retaining new talent.

In a nutshell, quantum technology fundamentally changes recruitment and HR processes for the better. For people-orientated leaders, quantum tech can help them analyse team structures and suggest the best people for jobs. It can also go one step further and analyse the effect that certain people’s attributes will bring to the team and have on overall team performance.

People’s productivity using today’s computers will eventually reach a cap beyond which some of our world’s problems will become unsolvable. Quantum technology can theoretically break through those limitations, enabling more industries and sectors to take advantage of the subsequent productivity boost this technology brings.

The benefits don’t stop there.

As this deep tech field gathers pace and spreads through the economy, becoming increasingly ingrained in our everyday lives, productivity increases – meaning higher wages, higher profits, and lower prices.

Quantum technology can also enhance the overall health benefits of employees, by accessing and analysing vast amounts of clinical data, resulting in personalised interventions and treatments.

The quantum revolution is nearing the horizon, sooner than predicted, with the development of hybrid systems that assimilate the benefits of both quantum computing in solving highly complex problems, and classical computing with its accessibility.

To harness the complete potential of this burgeoning tech, it becomes important to impregnate quantum computing with the power of Cloud. Quantum computing on top of Cloud computing helps create super-powerful encryption and is used in areas of experimental research and development. In the coming year, organisations will continue streamlining quantum services through the Cloud to achieve new breakthroughs.

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Kalyan Kumar is the chief technology officer and head of ecosystems for HCLTech