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Updated on: Feb 2023
How to balance productivity and flexibility in Hybrid work culture?
Culture & Behaviour

How to balance productivity and flexibility in Hybrid work culture?

With the onset of the global pandemic, almost 90% of the world’s organizations had to adopt remote working and work-from-home culture to cope with the time, and more than 54% still maintain hybrid work mode, as per Gartner reports. No wonder the concept of a hybrid workplace is no longer alien to the world. Since […]

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Retaining the Skill Edge in 2023
Learning & Development

Retaining the Skill Edge in 2023

Continuous learning and skilling are key success imperatives for people across industries, geographies and age groups. Due to disruptions in the external world, the skills landscape keeps evolving at a rapid pace. It is important that one keeps pace with the changing skill demands to stay relevant. Skilling needs to follow a 360-degree approach. To elaborate, […]

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Employee Experience Trends for 2023
Culture & Behaviour

Employee Experience Trends for 2023

Employee Experience Trends for 2023 The corporate world has been in a constant rigmarole since the pandemic. It transitioned from the phase of unlearning the traditional working model to being faced with great resignation to now being on the verge of significant layoffs and hiring freezes. All these situations have adversely impacted employee morale and […]

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Flipkart to benefit 25,000 employees through $700 million payout
Compensation & Benefits

Flipkart to benefit 25,000 employees through $700 million payout

An Indian e-commerce company, Flipkart announced a one-time discretionary cash payout of as much as $700 million to almost 25,000. These benefits will be provided to its former and current employees, who hold employee stock options. The top 20 employees of the company the most senior and early staffers will be getting as much as $200 million […]

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Managing Redundancy in Organizations: The HR Way
Talent Management

Managing Redundancy in Organizations: The HR Way

The year 2022 and that too especially the second half of it has witnessed a series of employee terminations in tech industries from smaller firms to MNCs with as many as 11,833 startup employees in India losing their employment across industries. As per reports, after a CEO of a recently acquired US-based social media company communicated […]

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How the Gig Economy is Shifting into B2B
Talent Management

How the Gig Economy is Shifting into B2B

Recent research by the University of Hertfordshire indicates that 4.4 million people in England and Wales work for gig economy platforms at least once a week. As the world embraces remote working in the post-pandemic era, more businesses are rethinking the way they source talent. While gig work is often associated with the B2C world, […]

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Leadership Lessons
Leadership

Leadership Lessons

Peter Drucker once said…“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” Indeed, Leadership is a privilege and a responsibility. Most people still confuse leadership with a persona of authority, aggression, and extroversion. I have been fortunate to observe and learn from many leaders across the world and through experiences of my own. […]

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How to prepare for layoffs?
Economic Slowdown

How to prepare for layoffs?

The current global economic environment is gloomy. Wherever you look the conversations are centred around slowing growth, recession, high inflation, unemployment, and most importantly large-scale layoffs. These things are not new. Businesses go through economic cycles and there are cycles when going gets tough for them. When the going gets tough, well- run businesses are […]

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Rethinking Gig Model in Changing Work Culture
Culture & Behaviour

Rethinking Gig Model in Changing Work Culture

There has been a rise in the use of the word “GIG” over the last couple of years. Gig working is nothing but temporary position/work for a specific period of time. Gig workers are usually independent workers and work in a free market system. As we rethink or focus more on the gig model we […]

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Gig Economy in the Changing Work Culture
Culture & Behaviour

Gig Economy in the Changing Work Culture

GIG Economy had been a subject talked about for years now and has evolved over years in terms of customizing to consumer needs basis technological advances and evolving competitive edge. The changing work environment is leading to newer challenges to which organisations are adapting by the means of pursuing the relevant portion of the value […]

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How to deal with ‘know-it-all’ syndrome person at work?
Psychology & NPL

How to deal with ‘know-it-all’ syndrome person at work?

Have you ever attended a meeting where one people dominates the discussion, takes up all the time to talk, has an answer to all questions, rejects all opinions, repeatedly assert their point of view, invites others only to agree and targets anyone who disagrees with them, with all sorts of explanations? Yes…? Then you have […]

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PoSH Related Myths and Practices
Culture & Behaviour

PoSH Related Myths and Practices

Myths are not uncommon in business. The topic of sexual harassment topic is no exception. After handling 300+ sexual harassment complaints, we have been able to address some but the rest which were nothing but myths. Two very important myths that the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplaces Act (Prohibition, Prevention & Redressal Act) or […]

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