For years, labour law sat comfortably within HR and compliance checklists. That comfort is gone. With the rollout of India's Labour Codes, decisions around wages, workforce mix, automation, and contract strategy now carry direct balance-sheet and governance implications. Dr. Amit Das, a renowned HR...
Author - Dr. Amit Das
currently is the Director - HR & CHRO at Bennett Coleman & Company Ltd. (The Times of India), and is widely regarded as a global HR thought leader with a 37+ year career across India's leading corporates and multinational organizations. His work focuses on building future-ready organizations through leadership transformation, culture and capability building, agile workforce strategy, and technology-enabled HR systems. Beyond corporate leadership, he has contributed actively to national skilling and workforce agendas through senior advisory and committee roles.
Ultimately, it's about evolving with the times. By blending flexibility with added benefits and development opportunities, organisations can foster loyalty and productivity, regardless of the employment model.
Clear and transparent communication is fundamental to successful change management. HR plays a pivotal role in facilitating open dialogues between leadership and employees. This involves addressing concerns, sharing the vision for change, and explaining how it benefits all stakeholders.
The increasing prevalence of Gig talent as a necessary part of organisations talent continuum will further accelerate the evolution of the Performance and Rewards landscape in a direction where it is technology enabled, data driven and progressively customizable to an individual level.
Most of the employee centric interventions that we rolled out during the pandemic period, helped us to sail through the period of Covid resurgence as well.
At Times Group, even before the crisis struck home, we adopted a three-pronged approach of Toolset, Skill set and Mindset to ensure business continuity, boost employee morale and ensure employee well-being. We stepped back and put ourselves in the shoes of our employees to understand their needs...
