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

Abstract Agile workforce means to adapt the environmental changes both internal and external of organizations proactively and quickly. This may be the strategic approach of organizations for its competiveness and sustainability. Many research studies proved agile quality is the asset of organizations. The changes in work environment make the agile workforce to get updates in goals, technology, organization structure and behavior of employees. There are a few papers discussed the characteristics of agile workforce, their challenges and risks in workplace. This papers aims to discuss the characteristics, types of agile workforce, the factors influence the agile of workforce and the challenges and risks they face. For which the study used qualitative design using literature survey and reviewing the existing literature using thematic analysis and summarized in the sections. The study explored the challenges of agile workforce like lack of facility and infrastructure, communication gaps, presenteeism, lone working, techno stress, and so on. The challenges can be met by suing strategic interventions like proper training programs, proper instructions, and counseling for mental health risks, proper work structure planning, regulating feedback mechanism and plan for agile workforce wellbeing. Key words – Agility, Agile workforce, Health Risks of Agile Workers, Remote working, Presenteeism, Lone working