A manager at a Mumbai technology firm opens her leave calendar for November. Three team members have requested the same…
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For years, HR sat at the centre of organisations, ensuring policies were followed, processes ran smoothly and risks were contained.…
Krish Shankar, former Group Head of HR at Infosys and founding mentor at Crossmentors, recently shared a presentation titled There…
There is a seductive belief shaping corporate strategy today: that artificial intelligence will separate winners from losers based on how…
Organisations are investing heavily in coaching. Coaches are multiplying rapidly. Employees across levels are being “coached” in some form or…
SEGULA Technologies has elevated Praveen Ambrose to chief human resources officer (CHRO). Ambrose has been with the global engineering group…
On Tuesday morning, March 31st, 2026, approximately 30,000 employees of Oracle across the United States, India, Canada and Mexico woke…
The five-year strategic plan didn’t evolve. It failed. For decades, organisations relied on long-term planning to create certainty—mapping talent, capabilities…
Organisational people systems have long operated on implicit trust. Employees assumed compensation decisions were fair, even when salary structures remained…
Three out of four educated women in India step away from their careers at some point. That is the striking…
When consulting firms tie promotion to AI usage while threatening to “exit” resisters, they present the policy as capability building.…
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…
Internship programmes are proliferating even as their hiring yield declines. A survey by TeamLease EdTech of 932 Indian firms finds…
Vedanta has set a target to hire more than half its STEM recruits as women starting this year, a sharp…
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…
Remember Tata Nano? The Rs 1 lakh car that was supposed to revolutionise Indian mobility? It didn’t fail because the…
This week, Forbes predicted 2026 will finally end the college degree’s dominance as workplace bootcamps become standard and traditional credentials…
By 2026, the centre of gravity in human resources will shift decisively. Artificial intelligence (AI) will no longer sit at…
A fintech startup CEO recently hired a CHRO from a Fortune 500 bank. Twenty years’ experience, managed 5,000+ employees, built…
Two thousand flights cancelled in five days. Everyone’s analysing operational failure, regulatory non-compliance, passenger chaos. What nobody’s discussing: ground staff…
India’s Global Capability Centre story sounds like unstoppable triumph. Over 1,800 centres employing 1.9 million professionals. Projections suggesting growth to…
The sticky organisations of tomorrow won’t be those offering the highest salaries or fanciest perks. They’ll be the ones offering…
Competition in the workplace is hard to miss. It shows up in the scramble to hit sales targets, the quiet…

