 Human resources professionals are custodians of the climate of a workplace. Now, this was the focal point of a lecture on day two of the HR Expo Africa 2021, Helden Lagos, Vivian Oguche Hasmore. The role of HR professionals in an organisation and the potentials of a borderless workforce firmed the basis for earnest discourse at the well-attended HR Expo Africa 2021. We are problem solvers, first and foremost, as HR people. We in the profession must learn to navigate the in-between crevices and that other functions don't address. It is in such places that organisation culture is either held together or it unravels. As primary custodians of the culture and climate in the workplace, we suddenly have something to contribute here. The borderless workplace, which is not entirely new, has become something of a necessity today and is primed to become the norm tomorrow. As we find a cure for COVID and life begins to get back to assemblies of normality, people are going to go back to offices, but I think we need to now, there needs to be a paradigm shift on the culture of the organisation. How do people work? Are we going to go back to normal? I don't think it's possible to go back to normal. I think we're going to have a balance of choice, so people can choose how they work within certain boundaries. Six years running, the goal of the organisers and the participants seem to have melded. Both from HR events to a work festival where we talk about bringing people from all sectors of the economy to come together to learn on a conducive atmosphere. So the idea behind that is for us to be able to impact people from every sector, from every, both SMEs, startups, so we want to bring everybody together to be able to gain the knowledge and information that happens in other climes. So many other things I've learned about HR management and how to manage your employees and every other aspect. We need to go beyond just asking, we need to read impressions, we need to read attitude, we need to observe things around employees just to be sure that we understand them and then of course make sure that they are happy on the job. If you want to really enjoy your employee, you need to also train them to become better. The well-organised festival covered various topics including digital access to health, decentralising finance, borderless ways of thinking, digital workplace, power of platforms, roller-strong leadership and organisational designs. Participants were split into various groups according to their area of interest. Vivian Oguche for Plus TV Africa. NEWS OPDATES