{"id":769097,"date":"2024-04-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=769097"},"modified":"2024-04-24T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T06:27:56","slug":"business-talk-hps-yesh-surjoodeen-unpacks-the-impact-of-ai-on-employee-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/769097\/business-talk-hps-yesh-surjoodeen-unpacks-the-impact-of-ai-on-employee-satisfaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 HP\u2019s Yesh Surjoodeen unpacks the impact of AI on employee satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, HP Southern Africa Regional Director Yesh Surjoodeen discusses the role of digital transformation in the B2B landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surjoodeen boasts well over 20 years of IT industry experience, and joined HP in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He held multiple positions within HP across several departments, including in Pre-sales, Retail sales, and Commercial and Enterprise sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Surjoodeen joined Microsoft for three years to broaden his expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then returned to HP in 2021 as the Regional Director for Southern Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The interview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Surjoodeen begins the interview by explaining how digital transformation drives enhanced customer experiences and organisational growth in the B2B landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then discusses HP\u2019s sustainability efforts, including the steps it has taken to reduce its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surjoodeen also unpacks the impact of AI on job satisfaction and talent retention, and the relationships between employers and employees in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surjoodeen concludes the interview by discussing HP\u2019s new portfolio of AI-enabled PCs \u2013 the largest of its kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the interview with Yesh Surjoodeen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m6-YncCZEO4\" title=\"Yesh Surjoodeen, MD for HP Southern Africa talks sustainability, future of work &amp; AI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesh Surjoodeen boasts well over 20 years of industry experience and is intimately involved in HP&#8217;s digital transformation efforts.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":768391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[19585,1478],"class_list":["post-769097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-business-talk-with-michael-avery","tag-hp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769097"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769189,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769097\/revisions\/769189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}