When India’s finance minister unveiled the so-called “Yuva Shakti Budget”, the numbers did the shouting. Rs 32,666 crore for labour,…
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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…
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who revolutionised gene editing, once said she actively avoided being seen as a…
Manufacturing presents a peculiar challenge for human resources: people must be treated as valuable capital whilst simultaneously being managed as…
Organisations have discovered the perfect business model: demand highly specialised skills from workers whilst accepting zero responsibility for developing them.…
The modern workplace operates at the intersection of disruption and possibility. Technical skills depreciate faster than ever, five generations coexist…
In the comment section of a recent story on Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one remark cut through the noise: “Those…
At TELUS Digital India, the digital transformations firm, women are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. They are…
In India’s offices—from Bengaluru’s tech parks to Mumbai’s financial centres—AI is no longer a boardroom pilot; it’s a desktop reality.…
On a humid August evening in Bengaluru, fresh recruits huddle around a logistics dashboard, watching delivery trucks crawl across India’s…
As India progresses towards its ambition of becoming a $10 trillion economy by 2035, a profound transformation is reshaping its…
In this powerful excerpt, Sanjeeb Lahiri, Chief Human Resources Officer at GRP Ltd, shares how the company evolved from being…
Sanjeeb Lahiri, CHRO, GRP, joined the company seven years ago to help transform a traditional recycling business into a recognised…