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Company: Apex Solutions (fictitious), a business process outsourcing firm with 5,000 employees, specialising in financial services and insurance clients. Background:…
Moving beyond administrative support Maria Rajesh’s career has been shaped by a sustained curiosity about people and organisational dynamics. Early…
There is a number at the centre of Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report that should disturb every…
Pharmaceutical companies operate under a particular kind of pressure. Science moves fast. Regulation moves slowly. The cost of getting people…
What does ‘strategic defiance’ mean? Strategic defiance is the deliberate and calculated act of challenging authority, norms, or established systems…
A manager at a Mumbai technology firm opens her leave calendar for November. Three team members have requested the same…
For years, HR sat at the centre of organisations, ensuring policies were followed, processes ran smoothly and risks were contained.…
Some workplace traditions don’t announce themselves loudly. They don’t sit in HR decks or make it to annual reports. They…
At a time when employee experience is increasingly shaping business outcomes, Happiest Places to Work has launched the Happiest Places…
Company: NexGen Software (fictitious), a product-based SaaS company with 800 employees, building enterprise HR tech solutions. Background Arjun Nair is…
From tax professional to CHRO Arti Dua did not set out to build a career in HR. But when the…
There is a condition spreading through the global workforce that has no clean diagnosis. Workers are learning constantly, adapting continuously…
Diversified manufacturing groups present HR with a particular kind of complexity. Businesses within the same conglomerate operate in entirely different…
What does the Sakai Principle mean? The Sakai Principle, a term sometimes used to describe group dynamics at work, refers…
When a visually impaired employee joined Godrej Capital, the company assumed its office infrastructure was ready. The lifts had audio…
There’s a familiar workplace paradox most professionals quietly wrestle with. You’ve probably seen it play out more than once. The…
There’s always that one person in every team. They’re not the loudest voice in meetings. They’re not showcasing every small…
Talent decisions have long been shaped by proxies. The institution on a CV. The marks on a transcript. The brand…
Company: Heritage Textiles (fictitious), a third-generation family-owned textile and apparel business with 3,000 employees and Rs 800 crore in annual…
When competence met understanding Richa Dubey would have liked her younger self to understand organisations as systems, not just roles.…
Life insurance sits at an unusual intersection of trust and urgency. It is a product people know they need but…
Krish Shankar, former Group Head of HR at Infosys and founding mentor at Crossmentors, recently shared a presentation titled There…
There is a seductive belief shaping corporate strategy today: that artificial intelligence will separate winners from losers based on how…
What does ‘contextual intelligence’ mean? Contextual intelligence is the ability to understand the environment around you, interpret its dynamics, and…
On a weekday afternoon in a Metro Shoes outlet on a busy Mumbai high street, a sales associate kneels to…