Someone I know works with one of the world’s largest technology and consulting firms. Based in India, mid-level, close to…
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Insights, opinions, and perspectives by Prajjal Saha, editor & publisher HRKatha
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…
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…