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Updated on: Apr 2020

Culture & Behaviour

Culture determines whether you Sink or Swim in Downturn

Apr 7, 2020

How to Cut Business Costs During Downturn

Business upturn and downturn is a very cyclical phenomenon, but it is also a very slow phenomenon. I...

Economic Slowdown

Apr 6, 2020

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How prepared is PepsiCo for an Economic Slowdown

Exclusive Conversation with Pavitra Singh, Chief Human Resources Officer,nbspPepsiCo India Pavitra...

Economic Slowdown

Apr 4, 2020

The Role of HR in Economic Downturn

See-saw sacred ownthe downturn certainly doesnt stay down! As I jogged in the park, my eyes fell o...

Economic Slowdown

Apr 3, 2020

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Economic Slowdown

Leadership challenges during a downturn

Why flexible leadership overrides experience in dynamic times Leadership faces several challenges, particularly during an economic downturn. A simplistic statement but one that represents reality better than anything. In recent years, the world’s economic and political structures have been through a lot — from financial crisis to income inequality, demographic pressures, digital technology disruption, geographical shifts in […]

Apr 2, 2020

Hot Topic

Work-Life Balance while working from home

“Be careful what you wish for, it may be granted after all”, goes the age-old adage. How many times have we wished to get a respite from commuting long distances to office, running away from traffic jams, spending more time with family and literally praying and wishing if we could work from home? And just […]

Apr 1, 2020

Work-Life Balance

Work-Life Balance –An Individual Perspective

Balance is the key to everything. One can progress in life by bringing about balance in the way we think, eat, feel and act. We constantly seem to be struggling with work-life-balance. Success is when there is a happy balance amongst work, family, friends and self. Generally work life balance is perceived as a balance […]

Mar 12, 2020

New HR Trends

Top 5 HR Trends in 2020 for E-Commerce

As technology is pushing human evolution, businesses need to be acutely aware of the human angle in every new disruption unleashed by tech-enabled solutions. The Indian e-commerce market is expected to reach $100 billion replacing China as the top retail destination by 2022 and generate more than 1 million jobs. As we entered 2020, the human […]

Mar 5, 2020

New HR Trends

Top 5 HR Trends in 2020

In conversation with SightsIn Plus, Saurabh Govil, President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Wipro shares the following Top 5 HR trends for 2020. Employee experience Employee experience will be the overriding factor in people process decisions. In 2020 I see more and more organizations realizing its importance and making it mainstay of their HR strategy. […]

Feb 11, 2020

New HR Trends

4 Trends Changing the Way You Hire and Retain Talent in 2020

Some latest HR trends might already be familiar to you, but we hope we can provide some clarity into how to approach these trends and how they can help you in your day-to-day work. According to a recent Global Talent Trends, 2020 report here are four ideas/trends reshaping the way you’ll be attracting and retaining talent […]

Jan 27, 2020

Transformation

Managing Human Experience- Key to Digital Transformation Adoption

The world is at the beginning of a digital revolution; anything and everything that can go digital is going digital, at an exponential rate and no organization is immune. Research finding says since 2000, 52% of the Fortune 500 have disappeared, they’ve either gone belly up or been acquired, or closed their doors. Moreover, according […]

Jan 24, 2020

Transformation

Changing Role of HR Managers to Great HR Leaders

When we look at today’s most successful organizations, the CHRO is an integral member of the leadership team – and as a unit, they drive business and organization growth. It had not always been this way for HR, in the past (and it still sadly happens in some organizations today), HR was viewed as an […]

Jan 20, 2020

Future of Work

Recognizing and Overcoming Unconscious Biases in HR

We all have unconscious biases — assumptions that shape how we think, act, and feel. Some biases can hold us back. But when we make explicit those implicit stereotypes that limit us, we are more able to recognize and overcome them. I admit an unconscious bias in favor of HR as a value creator for employees, organizations, […]

Jan 17, 2020

Future of Work

Work From Home: The Best Practices

How much time do you spend on an average commuting from work to home asked a friend of mine? Around 3 hours I replied, and you? I asked …4 hours sometime longer he said. He lives in Bangalore and me in Mumbai. Depending on the place you stay in the urban metro cities your time to commute […]

Jan 17, 2020

Future of Work

Automation in HR – Impact, Adoption and Future workforce

In dealing with a workforce that is fast comprising of more millennials globally, it is imperative for an organization to understand ‘What Is It’ that the millennials want. Research from around the world suggests that this workforce is different. In that, they want to connect more, belong more, own more and in general, know much […]

Jan 13, 2020

Compensation & Benefits

HR 2020: What’s New In Pay And Rewards?

While the passage of one year does not change significantly how companies reward their employees, or how emerging technologies augment the sophistication of tools used to carry out a compensation exercise, the following are some of the trends that may emerge soon, starting with 2020. People Born In The New Millennium The youth born in […]

Jan 10, 2020