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Women in Workplace Report 2023 – Recommendations – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #911 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #911 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans  aims to share knowledge and wisdom from Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Amina Filkins Credit: Andrew Neel Credit: Ketut Subiyanto Credit: Michael Burrows Women in the Workplace is the largest study on the state of women in corporate America. Many of their findings resonate very well with most other countries while some are specific to the US only. In the previous blogpost, I presented extract of data and the four myths that this report tried to debunk. In the present post, I shall present the recommendations from the report with comments on their applicability in Pakistan.  The report recommends that companie...

Employee Engagement – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #689 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #689 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SITUATION IN PAKISTAN We may not have as many detailed statistics available for Pakistan, but based on long experience in various organizations, interactions with many other people and corporates, we understand that employee engagement is not a priority agenda in Pakistan. The problem is seen on both sides: the employers do not want to invest money and paid time on such activities; and the employees are not highly motivated either. There are generational differences also, where older generations find employee engagement unnecessary, and younger generatio...