Everyone is becoming a contractor, even with “full-time” titles. The modern employment system offers the worst of both worlds: the…
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When a company builds artificial intelligence, its own workforce becomes the most visible proof. If the technology cannot improve how…
IIM Mumbai has wrapped up its final placements for the 2024–2026 MBA batch with strong results. Out of 505 students,…
When Sam Altman declared that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make,” the line detonated in…
IIM Lucknow has completed its Placement 2026 with strong results for students. A total of 559 students received more than…
When consulting firms tie promotion to AI usage while threatening to “exit” resisters, they present the policy as capability building.…
Internship programmes are proliferating even as their hiring yield declines. A survey by TeamLease EdTech of 932 Indian firms finds…
A manager at a Bengaluru tech company noticed something odd. Her Gen Z team routinely questioned her decisions and pushed…
Last week, workforce strategist Amanda Goodall reignited the cycle by calling to “remove 90 per cent of HR.” The post…
Harvard economist Gita Gopinath delivered Davos’s most uncomfortable statistic: since the 1980s, only 30 per cent of India’s growth has…
Spotify largely avoids leadership approval for routine product features. Squads, small teams owning specific user experiences, make those calls based…
Remember Tata Nano? The Rs 1 lakh car that was supposed to revolutionise Indian mobility? It didn’t fail because the…
This week, Forbes predicted 2026 will finally end the college degree’s dominance as workplace bootcamps become standard and traditional credentials…
I spoke with Subir Sinha just two weeks ago. We talked for hours that evening, and he was hopeful—genuinely optimistic…
Somewhere between 1,80,000 tech layoffs globally and the invention of ‘job-hugging’ as a workplace trend, 2025 became the year Indian…
A fintech startup CEO recently hired a CHRO from a Fortune 500 bank. Twenty years’ experience, managed 5,000+ employees, built…
Social media erupted when MP Supriya Sule introduced the Right to Disconnect Bill, 2025 in Parliament. LinkedIn posts celebrated the…
Two thousand flights cancelled in five days. Everyone’s analysing operational failure, regulatory non-compliance, passenger chaos. What nobody’s discussing: ground staff…
The shadow job market has industrialised, and nobody’s paying attention. According to Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence’s report, forums posted twice…
India’s government has enacted what it calls “historic” labour reform—consolidating 29 laws into four codes covering wages, industrial relations, social…
India’s Global Capability Centre story sounds like unstoppable triumph. Over 1,800 centres employing 1.9 million professionals. Projections suggesting growth to…
The sticky organisations of tomorrow won’t be those offering the highest salaries or fanciest perks. They’ll be the ones offering…
As a journalist covering the advertising industry, I knew Piyush Pandey’s reputation long before I met him. Everyone did. His…
The summer placement process for Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, for Human Resource Management and Labour Relations (HRM…
As a child, I watched a labour union leader address a gathering. “Eight hours of work, eight hours of rest,…
Organisations have discovered the perfect business model: demand highly specialised skills from workers whilst accepting zero responsibility for developing them.…