When a company builds artificial intelligence, its own workforce becomes the most visible proof. If the technology cannot improve how…
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A hiring manager scans hundreds of applications. Most candidates have strong academic credentials. Prestigious institutions. Impressive degrees. Yet the hiring…
When Sam Altman declared that “listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make,” the line detonated in…
A manufacturing plant deploys AI-driven quality control. The system performs exactly as designed. Error rates fall by 30 per cent.…
A global chemicals company has seen applications for its core engineering roles fall by 40% in two years. The technical…
A cybersecurity team is racing to contain a live breach. Two candidates are under consideration. One has an elite computer…
In January, a plant manager approves a new technical training programme. By March, the curriculum is finalised. By June, employees…
Walk into Pernod Ricard India’s offices today as a new employee, and you may find yourself transported somewhere else entirely—standing…
Every knowledge worker recognises the phenomenon. A project sits frozen on a digital task board, its status unchanged for weeks.…
Falling for human depth Looking back at her first HR role, Babita Basak was most surprised by how deeply the…
Express logistics operates at brutal velocity. Precision matters, speed is non-negotiable, and reliability shapes customer trust. Behind every package delivered…
When India’s finance minister unveiled the so-called “Yuva Shakti Budget”, the numbers did the shouting. Rs 32,666 crore for labour,…
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…
For decades, companies have tried to control what employees say in public. What is new is the attempt to control…
This week, Forbes predicted 2026 will finally end the college degree’s dominance as workplace bootcamps become standard and traditional credentials…
Insurance is peculiar. Unlike technology companies that sell innovation or consumer goods firms that sell aspiration, insurance companies sell promises—commitments…
Consumer companies have long mastered the art of understanding customers—their preferences, pain points, moments of delight and frustration. However, when…
Banking, financial services and insurance operate under constraints that most industries never encounter. Regulatory frameworks are non-negotiable, compensation structures are…
India’s Global Capability Centre story sounds like unstoppable triumph. Over 1,800 centres employing 1.9 million professionals. Projections suggesting growth to…
Retail and hospitality operate on thin margins where employee experience directly translates to customer experience. A disengaged sales associate, an…
The sticky organisations of tomorrow won’t be those offering the highest salaries or fanciest perks. They’ll be the ones offering…
In a sunlit ballroom at Delhi’s Aerocity on 31st October 2025, something unusual happened in Indian corporate circles: young HR…
Four decades in human resources provides perspective that quarterly earnings calls and annual strategy reviews cannot. Adil Malia has witnessed…
Pharmaceutical companies operate at a peculiar intersection: scientific rigour meets human empathy, regulatory compliance encounters rapid innovation, and every people…
The accidental strategist Bhawna Kirpal Mital did not set out to become a human resources leader. A science graduate with…