Former staffers say India's biggest IT firm was gaming the US visa system

Anil Kini, an IT manager working in Denver for Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), claims that his superiors instructed him to falsify i...

Beware of The Giving Tree syndrome at the workplace

Looking at 'The Giving Tree' narrative from an HR perspective brings troubling dynamics in modern workplaces. The ways in which companies extract ti...

Overgeneralization: A tale of silver lining

Overgeneralizations are easy to fall into but can lead to significant blind spots in decision-making. Whether it's assuming that all employees prefer...

Is recruitment afflicted by a market for lemons problem?

Talent shortage continues to be a significant global challenge, with employers across multiple countries and industries struggling to fill positions. ...

Infosys layoffs: IT employee union logs complaint with government

According to NITES, the affected employees were confined to meeting rooms at the Mysore campus, where they are being subjected to intimidation tact...

Meta likely to lay off thousands of employees, says leaked memo

Tech giant Meta is expected to lay off around 3,000 employees, which is about 5 per cent of its total workforce, as per a leaked internal memo, report...

In order to become Business Partners, are HR professionals shunning basic HR work?

What value does HR deliver to an organisation? The evolving role of HR as a Business Partner is a question which is asked more and more often these da...

The search for fairness

The concept of fairness at the workplace, relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has undergone significant changes over the years. Althou...

Interview room that never had a door

While AI promises efficiency and neutrality in hiring, real-world applications have shown that it often reinforces systemic biases rather than elimina...

Odisha: Five arrested including Director General (HR) of private university in Nepali students assault case

The Bhubaneswar Police in Odisha on Tuesday arrested five persons including three directors of KIIT University on the charges of assaulting students h...