 Professionals across Africa have converged in Lagos to chart the cause for borderless work. At the gathering of the largest work festival in Africa, organized by HR Expo Africa, renowned resource persons showcase and share insights on what the future of work in the global workplace looks like today. Justin Akadonye tells us more. Participants have gathered at this home, and virtually. The focus is on various aspects of the workplace, or the main mission to deepen the reflection on the future world of work. The right skill, and not just skills in terms of technical skills, even on the soft side. Now the interactive sessions focus on emerging trends in human capacity development as they relate to various sectors of the economy, including hiring in a borderless world. Let me just use that word, would come with its own peculiarities, with its own peculiar challenges. So, the worry for HR people now is how do you effectively manage remote teams? How do you source for the right talent? How do you onboard them? And how do you keep them motivated? How do you reward them? You know, just general different approaches to managing people. We are beginning to talk about remote work fatigue, and organizations are putting structures and systems in place to address that. Thinking about how do you create engaged, personalized employee experiences for your people? In addition to that, how are you thinking about onboarding and training and investing in talent branding for your people? And lastly, how the future of remote work isn't necessarily the future, it's the now. And are you creating flexible structures, optionality for how your people are going to be working at home, but also making it optional for them to work at home? Work is changing. The way your work is changing, borderless is here to stay. So how do we manage this? How do we get ahead of this? And whenever you doubt yourself, I'd ask you to remember today. I remember meeting a CEO sitting in Nairobi, running a company in Nigeria with a hundred plus employees, with a thousand plus sales agents, and having a company where she hasn't met most of these people in person. The organizers and speakers alike say it is imperative to feel the agility and inventiveness of people by investing in disruptive learning and business opportunities that rather than simply challenge conventions and norms, and provide catalysts for new possibilities. So when you talk borderless work, and if you look at our population, our youth population is about, I think, close to 60% of our total population. So look at this number of people that have here compared to India, India is all constantly outsourced their talent because they are also a borderless country. So now with borderless work, that's the future for Nigeria in terms of what I say. So people can sit down in their homes and work for different organizations across the world because now the world is borderless. You can work for Microsoft in Lagos, and you don't have to travel to New York. You can even work for a small startup in any country. You can work in Ukraine without living. And I know that the government is working on a structure challenge. So I stopped with someone looking all the way from the US and he told me that he's not seen anything different in terms of technology, technical advances in Nigeria. What's happening in the US? Nigerians, from our own end, we are embracing technology like yesterday. And because we're beginning to understand that without technology, there's nothing we can do in terms of business in Nigeria. So for me, I don't see it as a limitation, it's just for us to be faster to catch up with what's happening in global space. Far-reaching issues are outlined. The professionals saying it will guide the daily operations in human capacity development. The concerns are really huge. And I feel this conference is trying to address that in the best possible ways. People have different streams of thoughts. Well, I've been working in consulting. I feel these are times I call for critical creative thinking, informational policies. First of all, it's a learning experience for me. This is my first time at this kind of expo and looking to pursue a career in it. So it's been wonderful. Each themes for the two-day event include importance of leadership, showing individuals how their careers and life needs can be further enhanced, as well as create a more diverse and rewarding work environment. Just the Nakadone, plus TV Africa.