COVID-19 has made re-skilling more imperative: Saurabh Govil, Wipro

NEW DELHI: Covid 19 has accelerated adoption of digital technologies across industries. This in turn has resulted in a surge in re-skilling. At Wipro, on an average around 40,000 employees are acquiring new skills every quarter. Skills that employees are getting trained on include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Big Data, IoT, cloud, cybersecurity and so on. In a recent e-mail interaction Saurabh Govil, president & Chief Human Resources Officer, Wipro NSE -2.75 % discusses the current re-skilling wave. Edited excerpts: