India's labour reforms and digital initiatives, like Digital Shram Seva and Shram Shakti Niti 2025, have created a foundation for a more inclusive and tech-savvy workforce. However, it is the role of HR professionals that truly brings these
frameworks to life.
Wide variations exist currently between notice period length specifics embedded across employment acceptance templates, competitive offers, and senior executive contracts. Standardizing 30-day minimums formally across documents and job posting systems prevents discontinuity.
Workplace romance is not without its challenges and risks. One of the primary drawbacks of workplace romance is the potential for conflicts of interest and favouritism.
The "human touch" is one of the most distinct characteristics of the hospitality industry. Therefore, investing in the development of soft skills in the customer service management segment can become a unique characteristic of organisations that prioritize upskilling their people.
Gen Z has been very vocal about valuing their health over wealth and it is the responsibility of every institution to make changes and accommodate the needs of the current generation.
As workplaces settle or at least think of settling in the hybrid environment, HR teams must ideate and improvise with sheer conviction to create a sustainable workforce which is planned, recruited, managed, trained and rewarded like never before.
It has been the incumbents in those roles which have driven the change as they learned and discovered new ways of doing their jobs more efficiently, be it training or the issues at work which stimulated them to rethink the way they worked.
Despite the job benefits affiliated with the emerging model of WFH, it eventually led to an unsettling experience as workers had to cope with change, build new behaviors, and collaborate remotely.
is an Associate Professor (Human Resources) in the School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 23 years of experience in academics and corporate HR.
