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What happens when two Rams walk into a podcast? This week on Fika Friday at the Office 🎙️, Ram Puranam sat down with Ram Viswanathan, Global Head of Digital Employee Experience at Philips, at the Philips Innovation Campus in Bangalore. They covered a lot of ground: from how Philips runs its hybrid-first model across a global workforce, to the cultural gap between US-style decision-making and the Dutch approach (deliberate, slow, then unstoppable), to what AI is already changing on the shop floor of digital work. A few things worth sitting with: — Younger employees are often less eager to come to the office. The pandemic gave them proof they didn't need to. — Joining a company remotely makes culture nearly invisible. You feel it when you're finally in the room. — AI is already changing how leaders delegate, or rather, how they stop delegating. — And the next frontier? AI that reads your calendar, senses a trip, and books the ticket. Convenient. A little creepy. Coming soon. 🎧 Full episode now live — link in the comments. #FikaFriday #FikaFridayAtTheOffice #FutureOfWork #HybridWork #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalWorkplace #Philips #Podcast