Few functions have been disrupted by technology as much as HR in the last 25 years. Along the entire employee life cycle are a bewildering array of applications and tools that promise enhanced employee experience. Add to this mix terms like digital HR and it gets confusing quickly. For founders…

Part II of a two-part article focused on strategic workforce planning, impact on culture and the evolution of HR technology. In this article, I outline the role of technology in strategic workforce planning and provide a framework for CHROs and CXOs to consider before investing in tools for their organization…

Strategic workforce planning is likely the only human capital process that focuses on forecasting, and perhaps, the only process with an outsized structural impact on organization culture. In this two-part article, I argue the impact of a skills based strategic workforce plan on culture and the evolution of HR technology…

How should early-stage founders, especially those at the seed / pre-Series A phase think about Human Resources (HR)? It is common at this stage of the startup, to conflate HR or anything people-related with hiring or talent acquisition. However, as I detail here, founders would do well to look at…

This episode is the third in our series on women’s participation in the workforce in India. Every year, class XII grades show girls outperforming boys in science subjects. …

One of the reasons women drop out of the workforce is, of course, childbirth. Troubling as that is, even today, many women risk their lives during pregnancy and childbirth. A key indicator of maternal mortality is the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR). Recently, the Government of India published MMR for 2016–18…

India ranks pretty low in female participation in the workforce. In 2019, female labor participation stood at a meagre 27% and not surprisingly, we lag several developed and emerging economies. To illustrate my point, China’s female labor participation stood at 60% in 2019. In India, over 60% of those employed…

This season we focus on stories of innovation and kick off with an exciting conversation with Saurabh Chandra, co-founder of Ati Motors, one of the coolest startups in India that makes autonomous cargo vehicles based in Bangalore. Cool for many reasons, not the least for an unusual team of co-founders…

For billions of children across the world, schooling and education has taken a new meaning. Bedrooms, kitchen counters, dining tables, a mat on the floor became the new classroom and the noise around EdTech rose to a crescendo. Amidst the din, it is easy to forget that in 1937, Gandhiji…