The Working Life

It is that time of the year when you have been appraised by your boss and are waiting for the bonus and the new compensation letter to come in. Soon, the water cooler chats will have few who are delighted, some upset and a majority of your colleagues will shrug at the new salaries. In this episode of The Working Life, Mansee Singhal Partner, Rewards Consulting Leader for Mercer India breaks down t...

More than 7 lakh students went abroad to study in 2022. Over the last few years, the students aiming to go abroad faced pandemic or geopolitical crisis. But now the floodgates have opened. In today's episode of The Working Life, Akshay Chaturvedi , founder of edtech firm LeverageEdu, explains the trends and challenges in getting the admission seat abroad.

How do traditional manufacturing firms overhaul their HR policies , adopt digital way of working when hit by Covid? Are they swift enough to ward off competition? Rajesh Uppal, Member Executive Board, HR, for Maruti Suzuki explains how the automaker is trying to keep pace with changing times but not let go some of its ingrained traditional work culture .

India Inc is scrambling to strategise its ESG targets and while green field projects , renewables are the buzzword, there is giant hurdle in front of them. Were are experts who understand ESG and green energy? Firms are recruiting from abroad, B-schools have started teaching the subject to create a future pipeline. Shantanu Srivastava, energy financial analyst at IEEFA South Asia explains the tale...

Artificial Intelligence is often used as an ominous term to indicate how many jobs will become redundant as profiles get automated. But Rituparna Chakraborty, co-founder and executive director of staffing firm TeamLease Services chalks out an ironic situation. She says that while certain profiles are more vulnerable than others, the employment opportunities remain immense. In this episode of The W...

India Inc is returning to its workstations and that too willingly. In one of the major surprises across sectors, companies are noticing that they do not have to push their manpower to attend physical office. The water cooler conversations are back and the office bays are buzzing with banter and chatter. In today's episode of The Working Life, Ruchee Anand, Senior Director, Talent & Learning Soluti...

Global tech and internet giants - Amazon, Meta, Google , Microsoft have retrenched thousands of employees adding to the recessionary waves not just in the West but even at home. India Inc is also struggling to balance involuntary and voluntary attrition in order to achieve the exact workforce strength. In today's episode of the Working Life Roopank Chaudhary, Partner and Chief Commercial Officer H...

Diversity is complicated. India Inc has been trying for many years to get more women on its payrolls. But, an equal gender ratio remains a dream for most firms. However, corporates have forgotten that diversity is non-binary. There is the third gender. Tata Steel - a 100-year-old firm is attempting to erase biases in its workforce. In today's episode of The Working Life, Atrayee Sanyal Vice Presid...

An interesting job profile and compensation aside, employees are demanding companies roll out insurance covers that go beyond basic healthcare. This includes insurance for mental health, infertility covers and a wider range of health benefits for parents, live-in partners that do not confirm to any kind of gender bias. Abhishek Poddar , CEO and co-founder of insurance company Plum breaks down how...

The hybrid work regime has taken its toll on women who had to straddle home and work much more than their male counterparts. Diversity experts were alarmed to see that when markets opened up and the hiring frenzy happened, women backed out from switching jobs or asking for higher pay packets. In double-income families, the women were quitting and this was not just an urban phenomenon but a worryin...

What does it take to keep talent focused when rivals are ready with counter offers and employee costs are burgeoning? Wipro's CHRO Saurabh Govil discloses how HR teams of IT companies waded through the hiring frenzy and then the lull, who is toughest to retain and can IT firms learn from their rivals.

Since the pandemic, India Inc has had to overhaul its salary and benefits structure to attract and retain employees. The counter offers, flexible benefits and wooing of talent have now taken a drastic turn. We are in the midst of a funding winter. In today's episode of “The Working Life”, Devina Sengupta at Mint discusses with Anandorup Ghose, Partner consulting firm Deloitte India, how firms are...