The time has already come for robots and humans to work together as a team — collaboratively producing significant results. 

Customer expectations for how they will interact with their insurers are also on a constant rise. This makes it critical to evaluate and tackle the associated human capital challenges.

The Shenzhen-based telecoms gear maker, is reportedly laying off about five per cent of its 60,000 strong global workforce.

Kumar was earlier director – business HR, Pharma & Consumer Healthcare, at Sanofi.

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The state labour department has imposed a monthly penalty of Rs 50,000 for five years on the accused after the company’s internal committee failed to act on the complaint.

Kapoor has joined as head-HR. The company hopes to further its aggressive talent acquisition strategy with this key new appointment.

Last week, the English daily discontinued its business bureau in Delhi and Mumbai and syndicated the same to Mint.

Pandey transitions from a talent-focussed role at Accenture into a larger business-focussed one at PwC.

Most companies were left playing catch-up with tech disruptions, a workforce with different needs, customised people actions and the move from talent management to people management. So, the scope for these trends, and more, to come into their own in 2017 is immense.

The digital payments firm will invest over Rs. 50 crore in a bid to expand its footprint.

The huge wave of technology has washed away many conventional HR practices as it continues to transform the way HR functions.

The recent survey on sexual harassment at workplace, conducted by the Indian National Bar Association (INBA) revealed that 38 per cent women had faced sexual harassment at workplace and 70 per cent of victims do not even report the same.

Naik was earlier the vice president-HR & head-organisational effectiveness at Reliance.

Jalali’s predecessor, BL Narayan, has moved on as head of solutions & sales support for the company’s Business Services strategic business unit.

Organisations are now leveraging platforms that ensure the hiring process is devoid of any recruiter biases.

S Padmanabhan had replaced NS Rajan in November 2016. 

The state of hiring also varied as per sectors. For instance, sectors such as IT, BPO/ITeS, automobile, BFSI and healthcare sectors mostly hired for the mid-level, while manufacturing and retail sectors hired mostly at junior levels.

Banerjee’s professional experience spans across categories starting from FMCG, hospitality, aviation and telecom to real estate.

Technology can reduce efforts to build and mine out data for a variety of reports, but can it help in informed decision making.

Companies which had not earlier enrolled their employees under the EPF scheme can now do so, against payment of a minimal damage fee of Re 1 per year of default.

Work e-mails post office hours are considered to be a practice that promotes unpaid overtime.

Gopu, an engineering graduate was unit head of ITI’s Bengaluru plant before donning the hat of an HR-head.

As per the new guidelines, the enquiry of such cases must be completed within 30 days and under any circumstances within 90 days from the date of the complaint.

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