Manufacturing presents a peculiar challenge for human resources: people must be treated as valuable capital whilst simultaneously being managed as…
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What would be the average salary hike for 2026 in India? The answer, according to the Aon Annual Salary Increase…
India’s technology sector has a retention problem. Annual attrition regularly exceeds 20 per cent, with engineers hopping between employers for…
For decades, annual increments have been the backbone of compensation strategy—predictable, structured, and often tied more to tenure than tangible…
Organisations have discovered the perfect business model: demand highly specialised skills from workers whilst accepting zero responsibility for developing them.…
If you’ve ever thought HR is just about handing out ID cards and organising Zumba sessions on Fridays, congratulations: you’ve…
The modern workplace operates at the intersection of disruption and possibility. Technical skills depreciate faster than ever, five generations coexist…
Abhilash Maurya, co-founder and CEO of Naxatra Labs—a company manufacturing compact, high-torque motors for electric vehicles and industries—recently posted on…
At 96, DS Group is no stranger to reinvention. The conglomerate—best known for its consumer brands – Rajnigandha mouth freshener,…
Last week in this column, I wrote about The Great Realignment — the slow but inevitable reshaping of India’s job…
Competition in the workplace is hard to miss. It shows up in the scramble to hit sales targets, the quiet…
Financial services has always been unforgiving to the unprepared. Regulations shift overnight, competitors emerge from unexpected quarters, and technology rewrites…
Professional advancement often stalls not from insufficient capability but from subtler psychological barriers that quietly constrain career choices. Among the…
The healthcare sector has a peculiar problem. Unlike engineering schools that churn out engineers or business schools that produce MBAs,…
In the comment section of a recent story on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one remark cut through the noise: “Those…
The graduate recruitment paradox has become impossible to ignore. Companies flood job boards with openings and dispatch teams to university…
The corner office is losing its mystique. For decades, boardrooms have worshipped at the altar of individual genius—the charismatic chief…
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in corporate India often follow a predictable pattern: well-meaning policies announced from boardrooms, celebrated…
When we think of hospitals, we imagine gleaming machines, accomplished doctors and precision-driven procedures. These are essential to modern medicine,…
For decades, the global career has been the north star for ambitious Indians. A role in Dubai, London or New…
Who is the model employee? The one who says yes to every request, stays late without protest and delivers beyond…
A young software engineer in Bengaluru earns Rs 12 lakhs annually—double what her parents made at the same age. Yet…
A young professional’s first manager shapes their career trajectory more profoundly than salary, location, or even industry choice. Yet this…
Modern workplaces prize adaptability. Employees are applauded for modulating their tone, vocabulary and even body language to suit the audience—whether…
There has been a 21 per cent growth in jobs across the global capability centres or GCCs that have mushroomed…
Amazon’s reputation for relentless customer focus has powered its rise from online bookshop to global behemoth. Less examined, however, is…