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Updated on: Jul 2026

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How Talent Acquisition is Becoming a Strategic Business Function

Jul 24, 2026

From Policy to Progress HRs Role in Empowering Women Leaders in India Inc

Leadership that excludes women is inherently incompletea reality increasingly evident across India ...

Diversity & Inclusion

Mar 19, 2026

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Top Leadership Lessons Women Bring to the Future of Work

As we mark International Womens Day, it is worth asking not just how far women have come in the wor...

Diversity & Inclusion

Mar 18, 2026

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The Future is Inclusive HRs Give to Gain Blueprint

In , we Human Resources, will not be remembered for policies written. It will be remembered for ...

Diversity & Inclusion

Mar 11, 2026

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Human Resources

Dave Ulrich, Father of Modern HR on HR Trends 2026

Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and 30 books. He edited Human Resource Management for ten years, served on the editorial board of four other journals and on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller […]

Feb 10, 2026

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Designing Belonging: HR’s Cultural Reset in 2026

In 2026, culture is no longer a background concept. It’s front and center. Employees are no longer asking only about roles, growth paths, or compensation. They’re asking a more fundamental question: Do I belong here? Belonging has quietly become the strongest currency in the workplace. In a world shaped by constant change… hybrid work, economic […]

Feb 5, 2026

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Shift in India’s Employment Landscape Beyond Metro Cities

For years, anyone aspiring to build a technology or corporate employment career often had little choice but to move to major metro cities. These moves were usually driven by necessity, not preference — young professionals leaving behind their families, familiar surroundings, and cultural roots. It sparked an important question: what if employment opportunities could move […]

Feb 2, 2026

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Talent Intelligence, Not Talent Acquisition: HR in 2026

Why the future of HR is no longer about hiring more people—but about understanding talent better. In 2026, the most progressive organizations will look back at the term “Talent Acquisition” the way we now look at “Personnel Management”—necessary in its time, but insufficient for the complexity of today’s world of work. The future belongs to […]

Jan 30, 2026

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HR at the Core: Powering Growth, Trust, and Talent

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are no longer defined solely by their products, services, or technologies. They are defined by their people. At the center of this human-driven transformation stands Human Resources (HR)—no longer a support function operating behind the scenes, but a strategic core that powers organizational growth, builds trust, and nurtures […]

Jan 28, 2026

Employee Engagement

The Shift from HR to HX: A New Era of Workforce Engagement

As workplaces become increasingly diverse, dynamic and digital, organisations are moving beyond the traditional domains of Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX). A third, and far more transformative, layer is emerging, known as Human Experience (HX). Rather than serving as an additional framework, HX marks a strategic evolution, one that is rapidly becoming a […]

Jan 12, 2026

Learning & Development

L&D 2025 Review: How GenAI Redefines Learning in 2026

If January 2025 was the time organizations started to experiment with Generative AI, by December 2025 Learning & Development (L&D) stopped experimenting and started explaining results to the CFO. By the end of the year, L&D leaders had a new reality to manage: GenAI was no longer a “nice-to-have innovation,” but an operational expectation—like Wi-Fi, […]

Jan 9, 2026

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Soft Skills Development: 2025 Review of New Workforce Priorities

As 2025 draws to a close, a fundamental shift in workforce priorities has become unmistakable. While technical expertise continues to matter, it is no longer sufficient on its own. Soft skills once considered supplementary, have now emerged as core capabilities that define organizational resilience, adaptability and sustained innovation. Today, human centric skills are not a […]

Jan 5, 2026

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Skills-Based Hiring: 2025 Reality and Why It’s More Than a Trend

If there’s one phrase that dominated HR conversations this year, it’s skills-based hiring. The idea sounds almost revolutionary: hire people for what they can do, not just for the degrees they hold or the titles they’ve had. But as we close out 2025, the question is—how far have we really come? The Promise vs. The […]

Dec 29, 2025