Goutam is a seasoned HR professional with over 29 years of diverse experience across sectors – FMCG, IT, telecom, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, healthcare & medical devices and infrastructure. 

The new office comes with a lot of flexibility, where employees can remove or reinstate a wall depending on their requirement and that too with just a push of a button.

What began with scrutinising a list of 900 applicants, took six months to identify the two top executives. Beginning with a newspaper advertisement seeking candidates, the shortlisting process that followed was extremely rigorous.

GE is reviewing whether the annual practice of making changes in compensation to acknowledge achievements and efforts of employees is the best way to do it.

Realising the importance of ideas that can come from employees, Accenture India has built a proprietary platform called ‘IdeaHarvester’.

The project manager, who was fired for slating the CEO on social media, has filed a legal suit in retaliation. Meanwhile, the CEO, Tony Fadell has also put in his papers.

Chairs in offices are giving way to quirky bean bags or couches, and swanky coffee tables are replacing the boring study/work desks. Even the conference rooms are getting more playful, be it with the furniture, the décor or the entire setup itself.

Men focus on the cash components of the rewards program, women tend to view it as a complete package.

CEOs increasingly believe that people want to support and work for organisations they can trust, with values that mirror their own.

The company will setup treadmills across its offices to motivate its employees and also initiate a social media campaign around the same.

L&T Infotech has cancelled the offer letters of around 1000 students who are now protesting the move along with Knowledge Professionals Forum.

Introduces 6+6 maternity leave policy; extends flexible working arrangement for another six months.

10 MBA students from premier B-schools selected for global projects.

It has been observed that if organisations take corrective measures in counselling and training such toxic managers, they can turn out to be really productive. 

The company focussed on handholding and developing the vendors supplying over the lion’s share of their components.

IIM-A rose in support of its disappointed students and reached out to Flipkart with an official letter conveying the time and financial loss the students had to undergo, in addition to the feeling of insecurity

Mobile developers in e-commerce firms enjoy twice the salary and monetary benefits in comparison to their counterparts in the IT services and software companies across the nation.

The team- building activities in a culinary setup allow participants to interact with each other in a non-threatening environment, with one of the most engaging, multi-sensory activities possible.

Coding contests are emerging as one of the most sought after ways for organisations to access top technology talent.

Chairman and MD of the Air India, Ashwani Lohani showed concerns over the fact that employees are blamed for the organisation’s failures whereas the real problem lies with the head of the company.

Snapplication is aimed at reaching out to the digital savvy youth, who are early adopters of newer social media platforms.

The company is also relocating a few employees to offices in India and Costa Rica from the US.

The eight stages of an effective IR.

The modified maternity policy will not just support childbirth but also surrogacy and adoption

The annual CEO-nominated stock award programme for top performers will make way for guaranteed cash rewards. 

Preference given to male workers while recruiting or promoting to senior roles, and the career-breaks women take for certain personal and societal reasons are the primary causes behind this gap.