India’s HR function has quietly become one of the largest data collectors in the enterprise. Not Finance. Not IT. HR. Every swipe at a biometric scanner, every GPS ping from a field employee, every performance review comment, wellness declaration, background check, and now even AI-generated interview transcript – HR systems

“Is your company still hiring based on degrees instead of demonstrable skills?”The truth is, we are living through a hiring revolution. The market has shifted from collecting credentials to identifying capability. And companies that aren’t rethinking how they grow talent internally are losing people faster than they can hire. According

There’s a sentence I hear far too often from business leaders: “We manage compliance manually. We have done it for years, and it works.” But does it really? India’s labour and statutory landscape have evolved faster in the last three years than it did in the previous two decades. Compliance

Organizations today love the idea of “going digital,” but when it comes to Employee Self-Service (ESS), many still treat it like a side feature. Remote and hybrid work have completely rewritten workplace expectations. According to recent surveys by Yomly and Teamflect, over 98% of employees want some form of remote

A recent IBM Data Breach Report 2024 reveals that the global average cost of a data breach has hit a record high of $4.88 million. The most targeted industries? Healthcare, finance and increasingly, HR tech systems, because cyber attackers follow the data. This should prompt every organization to ask: Are

A few weeks ago, People Matters published an article on how payroll is entering the era of cognitive AI. It caught my attention immediately, not because AI in payroll is new, but because the conversation has shifted. We are no longer discussing automation of tasks. We are talking about payroll

When I read the coverage of the “ELEVATE ’25” conclave in Thiruvananthapuram, where business, academic, and government leaders came together to discuss the human–AI nexus, I felt something shift. Not because AI is new, but because the conversation is finally maturing. We have moved past fear, past fascination, and arrived

In every decade, there comes a moment that forces organizations to pause and look inward. For India, that moment arrived with the rollout of the New Labour Codes. These reforms represent a structural shift in how the country defines wages, social security, contractual work, compliance responsibilities, and the relationship between

Remember when performance reviews meant once-a-year formal meetings, evaluation sheets, and a flurry of anxiety? Many companies still cling to that old rhythm. But in 2025, with work moving faster and roles changing more often, the old model make it too late to course-correct. Increasingly, organisations are realising that continuous

In a world where talent is the most valuable asset a business holds, it’s a terrifying little truth that the tiny slip-up in a payslip can send someone walking out the door. Imagine you worked all month, kept your end of the deal, and then—boom—the number is wrong, the deduction