Agile Workforce – the Proactive & Adaptive Workforce; a Strategic Need of Changing Workplaces - Potential Challenges, Risks and Remedies

Agile workforce is a strategic approach for efficient functioning of organizations while changes happenings like technological, structural, political, cultural changes happening. The agile employees are unique in nature in carrying out the work tasks and completion. They show the tremendous effort in their work activities and they contribute a lot for success and survival of the organizations. This paper highlighted the characteristics and types of agile workers, factors influencing the agility of workers and challenges they face in the work place. The agile workers should be encouraged for continuous learning, developing, active in self realization. The organization should really understand the different perspectives of agile workers in terms of the risks and challenges they face in the workplace – relationship issues, harassments, workplace bullying, dominance, & health challenges and so on. When their needs and requirements are fulfilled by the organizations, the wellbeing of agile workers will be assured in the workplace.

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