‘Sharing Economy’ vis-à-vis Labor Laws

“In the new wave of ‘SHARING ECONOMY’, how much liberty you can take if you have a new business model that may not come under existing LABOR LAWS? Can a start-up play with fundamental HR principals?” We recently discovered an important HR LESSON that can be found in the lawsuits against Uber and Lyft. [Tweet “Can … Read more

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Technology and Data-Driven HR: Impact on the Women Workforce

We often hear that women can’t do maths! Does it impact their ability to handle Analytics based HR Tools? Though we DON’T BUY THIS LOGIC, we decided to investigate more and came across a public Google spreadsheet created by Tracy Chou, a software engineer at Pinterest. This spreadsheet contains information about women employees in technology … Read more

Is Your HR Department Overworked?

HR department is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of employee data – what we call the transactional role of HR. They manage employee personal files, leave and attendance, salary data, promotions, travel and expenses, benefits enrollments, timesheets and performance records. All this data has to be combined together in various ways, queries answered, reports … Read more

Does Your HR Policy Support ‘Same-Sex Marriage’?

Did you hear about ‘Celebrate Pride’ tool – a photo editing tool by Facebook? Many of you (including HR managers) may have even used this tool, without reading the fine print in your own HR policy (whether it is pro or against LGBT). Facebook’s idea was to turn your profile picture into rainbow flag (with … Read more

Data and tech-driven HR: Is it future perfect?

Do you like being told how to behave? No, not even me. That’s why, in almost every organization, it is very easy to find critics of HR. Harvard Business Review very nicely captured general people’s perception about the HR practices in its July/August 2015 edition, with a very PROVOCATIVE HEADLINE: “It’s Time to BLOW UP … Read more

Performance Reviews Unanswered questions

Performance Review Process Demystified

Performance review is an important activity for all organizations and HR either implements a new performance review process or improves the existing process. In this procedure, HR has many queries on the performance review best practices. In my earlier blog Competencies across performance appraisals, I had analyzed the competency usage in existing performance appraisals. Analyzing … Read more

HR Is It resonsible for Failing businesses

HR Department – a whipping boy for failing businesses

When a business is failing who do you blame – and is any of it HR’s fault? This topic is trending on LinkedIn currently and the discussion is apparently yielding interesting, and useful insights about HR practices. The whole discussion looks biased with two old clichés. HR controls the hiring process, and is also responsible … Read more

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