Youth-led businesses can be a vital catalyst for change, sparking multiple positive ripple effects. This month, the British Council Sri Lanka launched a new project, ‘Youth-Led Green and Inclusive Initiatives in Businesses’, to harness the enthusiasm and energy of young business leaders and spearhead green and inclusive transitions in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in.
LIRNEasia was represented at the inaugural Sri Lanka Internet Day, organised by the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) on 6-7 April 2021.
Senior Research Manager Ayesha Zainudeen led a discussion on the challenges relating to women’s work in Sri Lanka that came about or were amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, in a session titled
Women and tech: Is working from home all that it was cracked up to be? She was joined by panelists Bani Chandrasena (Head of Inclusive Diversity- London Stock Exchange Group Sri Lanka) and Dr. Gayathri Lokuge (Team Leader- Livelihood and Employment at the Center for Poverty Analysis Sri Lanka).
The first edition of the HR/IR Forum for 2021 of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) was held recently on the theme of ‘IT-integrated remote work culture: Pandemic and Beyond’.
The webinar-forum which brought together experts in HR/IR, Industrial and Labour Law and disability sector from the EFC and its member-companies, deliberated on opportunities and challenges a remote work culture driven by IT entails in the pandemic-clouded environment. It also brought to the table the shifts to be forged in an IT-driven work culture beyond the pandemic, an EFC news release said.
Opening the forum, Kelum Herat-Gunaratne, Head of Business Transformation, Hirdaramani Group, provided a snapshot of the labor-intensive, diversified conglomerate’s key areas of business impact due to the pandemic which included both primary and supporting activities.