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HR Perspectives by Ajit Dias: "The challenge in India is balancing respect for hierarchy with openness
9+ hour, 36+ min ago (1382+ words) BLS International is not a company most people think about until they need it. It processes visa applications, consular services and citizen-facing government documentation across more than 70 countries. It operates at the intersection of regulation, sovereignty and human mobility. When…...
Kovon raises $250 K in pre-seed funding
10+ hour, 41+ min ago (382+ words) Kovon, the cross-border workforce-mobility platform founded by Bibartan Roy and Swayamjeet Das, has raised $250, 000 in a pre-seed funding round led by TDV Partners. With India as its talent base, Kovon is focused on building skilled, verified, job-ready pipelines for labour-deficient…...
Accenture scales Microsoft Copilot to 7. 4 lakh workforce, reports productivity gains
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (372+ words) Accenture has significantly expanded the deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot across its global workforce, marking one of the largest enterprise rollouts of AI tools to date. The company is extending access to nearly 7. 4 lakh employees, moving beyond an initial rollout of…...
Women lag in advanced tech roles despite strong IT presence in India
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (361+ words) Women continue to remain on the margins of high-skill technology roles in India, even as their participation in the broader IT workforce grows steadily. A recent study highlights that women account for nearly 3538 per cent of the country's IT workforce....
Axis Bank cuts jobs amid tech push
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (23+ words) 3, 100 roles are being cut as the focus on digital investments to boost efficiency grows...
Samsung workers rally for bigger share of AI windfall
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (254+ words) A massive employee rally has brought wage negotiations at Samsung Electronics into sharp focus. Thousands of workers gathered near the company's semiconductor complex in Pyeongtaek, calling for a larger share of profits generated from the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom....
HR Perspectives by John Dawber: "Adoption improves dramatically when AI becomes tangible in daily work rather than an abstract future concept
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (950+ words) Pharmaceutical companies operate under a particular kind of pressure. Science moves fast. Regulation moves slowly. The cost of getting people decisions wrong is measured not just in business outcomes but in patient impact. At Novo Nordisk, a company committed to…...
Meta monitors employee activity to fuel AI growth
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (304+ words) While Meta insists the information will only be used for AI development and that safeguards are in place to protect sensitive content, the move has raised concerns among staff. Many employees already feel uneasy after recent job cuts and a…...
Will Meta let go 8, 000 employees in May?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (294+ words) Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is preparing to lay off about 8, 000 employees by next month. This represents roughly 10 per cent of its global workforce and will be the company's largest round of job cuts since its 202223 restructuring,…...
POV: Should HR be measured by process excellence or business impact?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (828+ words) For years, HR sat at the centre of organisations, ensuring policies were followed, processes ran smoothly and risks were contained. It was the function that kept the engine compliant, if not always competitive. But that ground has shifted. In a…...