A senior television journalist, who now runs his own YouTube channel, was speaking to a student at Jantar Mantar during…
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Insights, opinions, and perspectives by Prajjal Saha, editor & publisher HRKatha
Something significant is happening to India’s technology workforce in 2026. Most people are describing the symptoms. Very few are examining…
I was speaking recently to the HR Head of a mid-sized IT company about hiring. We were discussing how recruitment…
There is a particular kind of trust between an employer and an employee who leaves their child at a company-run…
Someone I know spent eight and a half years building the research function at a mid-sized communications agency. This was…
Someone I know works with one of the world’s largest technology and consulting firms. Based in India, mid-level, close to…
Hire for potential, not just pedigree. Look beyond industry boundaries. Avoid groupthink. Value transferable capability. Bring in fresh perspective. Do…
The logic behind retirement at 60 once made sense. India was younger. Jobs were scarce. Retirement created predictable generational turnover.…
The org chart did not predict this shift. Business urgency did. Corporate HR structures still suggest a clear hierarchy. The…
Happy HR Day. Across LinkedIn today, companies will celebrate HR as the “voice of employees,” “people champions,” or “culture custodians.”…
A manufacturing engineer with twenty-five years in an automotive plant is an asset. They understand the production line, the tolerances…
The pattern is familiar enough that it no longer surprises. A senior leader exits. The succession discussion begins. And the…
The image circulated widely: a professional working from a parked car, laptop balanced precariously, joining calls between errands. Another showed…
Somewhere between the job posting and the final interview, the real hiring decision has already been made. The candidate has…
On April 12th, 2026, Tata Consultancy Services issued a statement about allegations from its Nashik facility: “TCS has a long-standing…
On Tuesday morning, March 31st, 2026, approximately 30,000 employees of Oracle across the United States, India, Canada and Mexico woke…
The conflict in West Asia has introduced real uncertainty into global markets. Oil supply routes face disruption. Energy prices fluctuate.…
Every company declares that retaining talent is a strategic priority. Annual reports emphasise culture and engagement. Leadership speaks of ‘people…
Everyone is becoming a contractor, even with “full-time” titles. The modern employment system offers the worst of both worlds: the…
When a company builds artificial intelligence, its own workforce becomes the most visible proof. If the technology cannot improve how…
When Sam Altman declared that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make,” the line detonated in…
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…