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Talent within? CEO choice puts spotlight on Indian airlines' HR policies

Foreigners being selected to lead Indian carriers speaks about the companies' succession planning, say experts.

Pine Labs appoints ex-Amazon India HR Head as its chief people officer

Prior to Amazon, Vijayalakshmi Swaminathan was a founding partner at CoCoon Consulting, a cross-sectoral boutique HR consulting firm

HR tech startup Hono raises over Rs 38 cr in funding led by Aakash Chaudhry

Hono is looking to leverage the fresh corpus of funds to expand operations across India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, increase market footprint and strengthen its product offering

50% of India leaders feel unsure about the future of work: Report

The future of work involves tapping into talent virtually in tier II and III cities on the one hand, and leveraging the gig economy on the other: PwC report

From hiring to managing attrition, how tech is tackling knotty HR problems

As the churn deepens in India's IT sector, firms big and small are worried about rising hiring costs and fast attrition across most engineering based roles

What sets Leena Nair apart from other India-born achievers?

After Parag Agrawal's elevation as CEO of Twitter, another India-born executive Leena Nair, has now been chosen to head a global brand Chanel. Here's a peek into Nair's journey from Kolhapur to London

Short-term incentives here to stay post-pandemic to retain talent: Mercer

Respondents in survey say it imperative the HR team structures short- and long-term incentive plans to ensure the incentives are aspirational, sizeable, fair and simple, while also being achievable

Ola elevates Balachandar N as Group Chief People Officer

The company's headcount has gone up from 4,500 to 8,000 in the last five months, given the growth across all businesses

BS Interview: Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte on worrying attrition situation

In an exclusive Q&A with Neha Alawadhi, Wipro CEO Thierry Delaporte spoke about his company's business, its plans, the attrition problem, and what Wipro is doing to manage its human resources

Poonawalla Fincorp strengthens top deck with six new appointments

While Rajendra Tathare is Chief Credit Officer, Rashmi Prasad is Head Analytics. Others include Mitul Budhbhatti, Manish Kumar, Surya V and Indiresh Phaltankar

SBI top-deck recast: Mishra is new HR head, Rana Singh is strategy chief

Ravindra Pandey, who was serving as DMD (Strategy) & Chief Digital Officer, is now DMD and Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Pandemic prompting cos to reimagine workplace, culture: HR executives

Top executives from Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) and Wipro deliberated on what will be needed to build resilient workforces and workplaces in a post-pandemic environment

Urban Company names Uber executive Neha Mathur SVP of Human Resources

Appointment underscores company's commitment to attracting world-class talent; comes at a time when Urban Company recently raised $255 million in a Series F round

Ola Electric names former GE executive Balachandar as chief HR officer

Balachandar is a 33-year HR veteran who was most recently group director at Coffee Day; earlier stints include GE Healthcare and GE Capital, Strides Arcolabs and Stanchart

Capacity Building Commission formed, Adil Zainulbhai appointed as chairman

The approved Commission will coordinate with and supervise all the government offices, training institutes to monitor and evaluate the implementation of plans and create shared resources

HR steps in to ease work from home pressure amid Covid-19 pandemic

"A lot of this is desired but on many occasions fails in implementation. We find policies aplenty, but putting them into action is less common," says Anandorup Ghose, partner, Deloitte India

BS READS: Job security vs skill upgrade - the future of one-year MBA course

As the IIMs discuss the status of degrees, the programmes themselves face many questions about placements and applications in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

Tug-of-war over a $500-mn World Bank loan to transform school education

World Bank says loan will boost public-service delivery without enabling privatisation; experts against handing over primary education to non-state entities, find project goals dissonant

HR dept has its work cut out as companies manage layoffs, work from home

Inducting new employees virtually and deciding about earned leave: HR managers have lots of decisions to make.

How companies can maintain employee mental health in the time of Covid-19

Very few have been able to cope with a sudden, prolonged shift to WFH; Zoom fatigue has set in, causing burnouts and low productivity