What does ‘dominant anxiety’ mean? Every major workplace transformation produces several reactions at once: curiosity, excitement, scepticism, resistance and fear.…
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A hospital has one organisation chart. It does not have one workforce. At Paras Health, which operates eight hospitals and…
Work-life balance was once a relatively simple idea: finish work, switch off and make time for life outside the office.…
Employee experience is usually discussed in the language of big-ticket benefits: health insurance, wellness platforms, learning budgets and flexible-work policies.…
The fascinating part of HR For Ina Bajwa, chief people officer, Tilaknagar Industries, one of the earliest surprises about HR…
Company: Apex Digital (fictitious), a mid-sized technology company with 1,600 employees, building SaaS products and digital solutions for enterprise clients…
A company can be an excellent place to build a career. It can also be a terrible one. Remarkably, it…
Tropolite Foods is a legacy food-ingredients business built over more than four decades on entrepreneurial energy, deep customer relationships and…
There is an obvious problem with a health insurance company that does not take its employees’ health seriously. The gap…
What do ‘managerial augmentation’ and managerial substitution’ mean? Managerial augmentation and managerial substitution describe two different ways technology can change…
There was a time when an employee’s professional identity was largely confined to the organisation they worked for. Today, that…
Some workplace phrases have become so embedded in office life that nobody questions them anymore. Someone says, “Let’s take this…
Company: Synapse Technologies (fictitious), a mid-sized IT services and product engineering firm with 2,200 employees, delivering software development, cloud solutions…
When she said she wanted to lead sales, Sulbha Kaushal Rai was cautioned that it “wasn’t that simple”, that it…
By April 2025, nearly 25 per cent of internet users in high-income countries had adopted ChatGPT, compared with 5.8 per…
Kyndryl emerged from IBM’s infrastructure services business in 2021 with deep technical capability, but also the task of building a…
What does ‘career lattice’ mean? The career lattice replaces one of the most enduring images of professional life: the ladder.…
Most HR dashboards end with numbers. Attrition rates. Vacancy counts. Absenteeism percentages. Training hours. At The Akshaya Patra Foundation, those…
What if giving employees unlimited leave actually makes them take less of it? As organisations rethink traditional workplace policies in…
Careers are full of moments that feel urgent. A recruiter needs an answer by Friday. A promotion has not come…
Company: Vertex Technologies (fictitious), a mid-sized technology services firm with 1,800 employees, delivering software development, infrastructure management and digital transformation…
Walking into a room, Beena Jacob sometimes found herself expected to advocate for the people perspective alone, not challenge business…
About 85 per cent of Indian organisations say AI or agentic AI is transforming their hiring processes in FY26, up…
Sriharsha Achar has spent more than four decades as a people leader across manufacturing, IT, healthcare and health insurance. That…
The corporate career ladder has always had a hidden dependency: the manager standing at the bottom of it. Who gets…
What does ‘delayering’ mean? Delayering is the deliberate removal of levels from an organisational hierarchy, usually by reducing management positions…