From sales to HR For Nandini Matiyani, group chief human resources officer at Strides, a career in HR was not part of the original plan. She began in sales and was progressing steadily when the birth of her first child…
Seventy-six per cent of technology professionals are satisfied with their current jobs.…
What does ‘undue hardship’ mean? An employee requests an adjustment to continue…
In IT services, the need for new skills can emerge faster than…
I must have been in school when I first heard the slogan.…
Prodapt has elevated Itha Lakshmipathi to senior vice president – human resources,…
Organisations rarely allow their business performance to go unexamined. Revenue, costs, growth targets and operational efficiency are reviewed at regular intervals. Yet one factor that can determine whether those ambitions are realised often receives far less…
‘Enterprise-ready’ is among the most frequently used terms in the software industry.…
Recruitment has always been a people business. Increasingly, it is also a…
A product manager from a business-critical team resigns, creating an urgent vacancy.…
Many HR professionals aspire to become chief human resources officers, but few…
Canva is restructuring and how! This round of workforce restructuring is expected to affect 1,271 employees, or about 22 per cent of its global…
Quess Corp’s workforce crossed the five-lakh mark in the September quarter of FY27, with its General Staffing business adding more than 20,000 employees during…
Change management was built around a reassuring assumption: change would eventually end. There was a beginning, a period of disruption and, finally, a new normal. Rajita Singh, chief people officer – India & global delivery HR leader, Kyndryl believes that assumption no longer holds. “Change…
Newgen Software has plenty of talented people. For its global CHRO Kashish Kapoor, that does not necessarily settle the talent question. When Kapoor joined the company, she found what she describes as a huge pool of talent. The harder question was whether the capabilities Newgen…
When performance falls short, training is often the first prescription. Someone is not delivering. A team is struggling. A new capability is required. The instinctive organisational response is to identify a programme, put people through it and hope performance improves. But what if the problem…
When Shailesh Singh, Chief People Officer at Axis Max Life Insurance, talks about capability building, he does not begin with training programmes. He begins with culture. “If it is not consciously anchored,” he says, invoking a Rajiv Gandhi quote on corruption to make his point,…
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