Technological disruption in the workplace

Cisco Executive VP and Chief People Officer Francine Katsoudas.

The workplace is changing rapidly. Technology has disrupted the traditional skills needed to hold on to a job. And the skills that companies will require employees to have in the future and their preparation to gain such skills remain key to organisations.

Financial Standard caught up with a top executive from the Silicon Valley firm who was in the country to visit Wawira Njiru, the founder of Food for Education and winner of the Global Citizen Youth Leadership Prize 2018 presented by Cisco. Below are the excerpts.