Andrew Baillie of Ocado on reskilling employees to create a sustainable workforce
“Skills for the future are a really important part of our culture. We recently launched our corporate responsibility and, for me, this is one bit that I feel really stands out,” says Baillie.
He explains that there are two parts to the skills for the future goal. The first is around life skills and ensuring that employees have what they need to get on in life, such as getting a certain level of reading and writing, and tackling the digital divide to help people get online.
The second part focuses on skills for future learning, which is really important to the organisation as it is very concentrated on robotics and automation, and it wants to make sure that employees feel secure in their future by reskilling them.
Baillie attended REBA’s exclusive Transforming engagement: aligning corporate culture with human values breakfast in association with Mercer Marsh Benefits. It brought together senior reward professionals from an array of sectors to discuss rising values – such as having a purpose, being sustainable, aiming for environmental targets, and promoting DEI and wellbeing – and examine whether these link into organisational culture and responsible reward and benefits in today’s corporations.
Read a full round-up from the breakfast event on Employers are moving to align corporate culture and human values.
Accompanying the Transforming Engagement Series are three reports that will provide the context and practical steps needed to meet the challenge of transforming organisational culture into one that engages employees and reduces people risks. Report three will be available in the autumn.
Download report one People risk: why the need for change is urgent.
Download report two Aligning corporate culture and human values.
