Work Life Balance and Cognizant Workplaces

There are emerging themes in organizational productivity that is being driven by changes in life styles and nature of work on one hand and the proliferation of channels, devices, computing power, and grids on the other. We will first explore these themes, and the forces driving these themes, specific to industries such as retail, automotive, government, and banking. It is proposed that cognitive insights implemented using soft computing components can address the emerging workplace requirements. Desiderata for such workplaces and associated architectures, including open problems, will be described in the context of industry specific roles and business process adaptation and transformation.