Many of us have grown up in an era where securing a job was the quintessential path to success. First,…
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Insights, opinions, and perspectives by Prajjal Saha, editor & publisher HRKatha
It’s common to see memes and jokes around HR. I think this is one department or function on which maximum…
In boardrooms across the globe, executives are falling prey to a seductive fallacy: that artificial intelligence represents the pinnacle of…
Elon Musk’s management style has always been a study in contradictions—bold yet rigid, visionary yet controlling. His recent endorsement of…
A whistleblower’s email to the ethics committee of one of India’s largest technology companies, which has been accessed by HRKatha,…
The truth about your HR department is uglier than you think. Behind the carefully crafted emails about employee engagement and…
The global buzz around four-day workweeks has reached a fever pitch, and corporate India’s tepid response reveals a troubling reluctance…
The mask has slipped. These are the moments when corporate leaders inadvertently drop their carefully cultivated public personas and reveal…
The rise of Agentic AI marks a profound and unsettling shift in the narrative of artificial intelligence. While 2024 was…
Power remains a fascinating and complex phenomenon. Over the past two decades, psychologists have consistently demonstrated that power—defined as control…
For decades, the MBA was revered as the holy grail of career advancement—a symbol of elite business acumen and a…
Remote work was heralded as a revolution—a promise of freedom and flexibility, a balancing act between personal lives and professional…
On 29 August, a few weeks after the World Whistleblowers Day, India’s largest IT services company terminated an employee who…
The social media recently had a field day dissecting a blunt, one-liner leave email from a Gen Z employee. To…
Recently, CEO Ravi Kumar shared a remarkable statistic: 13,000 former Cognizant employees from 40 countries have rejoined the company. This…
It’s no longer a hypothetical question. Has AI begun to replace human jobs? Recent headlines suggest that the answer is…
There was a time when being ‘overqualified’ meant having too many degrees for a low-skill job. A glaring example occurred…
The recent misstep by the CEO of a well-known ride-sharing company brought to light a critical issue: mediocre leaders, when…
Three tragic deaths. Three employees from prestigious organisations—EY, HDFC, and Bajaj—succumbed to work-related stress. These aren’t isolated incidents; they’re flashing…
Let’s call it what it is: fauxductivity is a blight on the modern workplace, and it’s spreading fast. This isn’t…
When machines first entered the workplace, people feared they would erode human empathy, reducing workers to mere cogs in a…
The practice of self-appraisal has long been a staple of performance management systems. Employees are asked to evaluate their own…
In today’s hyper-connected, fast-evolving workplace, the days of siloed operations are a relic of the past. The modern business environment…
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), CEOs are caught in a perplexing predicament. While the technology promises unprecedented growth,…
In the political realm, interim leaders such as Muhammad Yunus, who has recently been appointed to steer Bangladesh through a…
In the digital age, where transparency is paramount, a disturbing trend has emerged: the proliferation of ghost jobs. These illusory…