Consider two employees beginning their careers. One joins a technology company as a junior analyst. The employee has an academic…
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Netflix has announced its largest workforce reduction to date, cutting around 1,000 jobs, or 6 per cent of its staff.…
AAA Technologies, the information-security firm, is reposition as a “Cyber Security Through AI”. The Mumbai-based company is gearing for an…
India is witnessing a wave of worker protests across different sectors, each pointing to long standing HR challenges around pay,…
Kroger, the US supermarket chain with 409,000 employees and more than 2,700 stores, has announced plans to lay off 3,000…
Amazon has begun another round of corporate job reductions, trimming fewer than 1,000 white collar roles, mostly in its Stores…
A colleague leaves. The position is not immediately filled. The work, however, does not wait for the replacement. Some of…
Change management was built around a reassuring assumption: change would eventually end. There was a beginning, a period of disruption…
The Black Swan was supposed to be rare. In today’s workplace, it can sometimes feel almost routine. For Mrinal Sinha,…
The numbers that describe India’s GCC story in 2026 are impressive. More than 2,100 centres. About 2.36 million professionals. $98.4…
Trust takes time to build. It can disappear remarkably quickly. For Dev Jha, CHRO, India Glycols, that makes trust one…
The fascinating part of HR For Ina Bajwa, chief people officer, Tilaknagar Industries, one of the earliest surprises about HR…
What do ‘managerial augmentation’ and managerial substitution’ mean? Managerial augmentation and managerial substitution describe two different ways technology can change…
Newgen Software has plenty of talented people. For its global CHRO Kashish Kapoor, that does not necessarily settle the talent…
The obvious successor may not necessarily be the leader an organisation needs next. As regulation, technology and business models change,…
They did not arrive announcing themselves. They joined as analysts, engineers, content writers, recruiters and consultants. On paper, they looked…
Interviewed by Tata’s Russi Mody in 1977, GS Ramesh was asked where he wanted to start his career. “Where did…
Nobody announced that work would change this way. There was no strategy document, pilot programme or change-management communication. An employee…
When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new…
Learning has always been easier to deliver than to measure. In this podcast highlight from The CHRO Playbook, John Cherian,…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with…
A senior television journalist, who now runs his own YouTube channel, was speaking to a student at Jantar Mantar during…
Winner | HRKatha Rising Star Leadership Award 2025 Every profession reaches a point when its role begins to change. For…
The debate about AI and employment has spent three years asking the wrong question. The question is not whether AI…
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…