Explore the latest Reward & Recognition news, trends, AI innovations, HR analytics, and digital workplace insights. Stay updated with expert opinions and industry developments.
Over the years, working across renewables and banking, I have witnessed how workplaces evolve, somet...
In todays fast-paced, sometimes hybrid, highly competitive, and mostly high-stress organizational e...
The way organizations approach employee recognition has changed dramatically over the last decade an...
“True recognition is not uniform; it honours the unique nature of every soul.” Organizations are increasingly moving or exploring moving away from one-size-fits-all reward programs and toward more personalized approaches that reflect how individuals and teams work, contribute, and engage. Using behaviour and engagement data can help companies design rewards that are more meaningful, timely, […]
Workplace recognition is no longer a “nice-to-have” HR practice—it has become a strategic lever for culture, engagement, and performance. What has changed over the past decade is not just the medium of appreciation, but its very nature. The shift from formal emails to instant emojis is symbolic of a much larger transformation: from delayed, hierarchical […]
Conversation with Reena Wahi, Partner and Head of People, Performance and Culture, KPMG in India In this role, Reena leads KPMG in India’s human resources function, which comprises talent management and strategy, driving the people culture and professional development to further KPMG in India’s operations and growth. She has over 25 years of experience, with strong functional expertise in […]
At 11:47 PM on a Thursday, Anika sat alone in her apartment in Bengaluru, staring at her laptop screen. Three hours earlier, a critical customer escalation had exploded inside her company’s global operations dashboard. Revenue risk. Angry client. Leadership panic. Within minutes, teams across Singapore, Frankfurt, and Chennai jumped onto a war-room call. Anika was […]
The conversation around hiring has changed dramatically over the last few years. While organizations continue to compete on compensation, benefits, and career opportunities, a quieter but more profound shift is taking place in the workforce. Increasingly, candidates—especially Gen Z professionals—are evaluating employers not just on what they pay, but on how they value people. For […]
Employee recognition has become one of the defining conversations in today’s workplace. As organisations compete for talent, navigate evolving workforce expectations, and strengthen engagement and retention, how they acknowledge and reward contribution has become an increasingly important driver of culture and performance. Organisations continue to invest in rewards platforms, appreciation programs, peer-to-peer initiatives, and broader […]
There is a version of the talent conversation that organisations have been having for years, centred almost entirely on compensation and flexibility. Adjust the package, offer a hybrid model, and assume the work is done. Gen Z has quietly made that assumption obsolete. This is not a generation disengaged from work. They are disengaged from […]
I was talking to a country HR leader recently, and she was genuinely astounded that, despite significant investments in Rewards & Recognition, platform modernisation, and high-touch communication, employee engagement continues to decline. When evaluating such problems, I keep coming back to a remarkably enduring framework proposed in 1943: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow was writing […]
Four reasons organisations can’t do it — and why the future belongs to those who will Here is a medical analogy that fits most organisations today: the operation was successful, but the patient is dead. Year-end reviews look healthy. Feedback happened. Teams delivered. Yet the metrics that matter — growth, productivity, customer impact — barely […]
