IBM Replaces Hundreds of HR Professionals With AI Agents

IBM has replaced about 200 human resources professionals with AI agents. The company’s AskHR AI agent now automates 94% of routine HR tasks, including pay statements, reported The Wall Street Journal.

However, instead of reducing overall employment, IBM has redirected resources to hire more programmers, salespeople, and marketing professionals—roles that require critical thinking and human interaction.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna emphasized that this shift has actually led to more hiring in other areas, such as software engineering, sales, and marketing.

“While we have done a huge amount of work inside IBM on leveraging AI and automation on certain enterprise workflows, our total employment has actually gone up, because what it does is it gives you more investment to put into other areas,” Krishna told The Wall Street Journal.

IBM’s approach reflects a broader trend of using AI to handle repetitive tasks while reallocating resources to roles that require critical thinking and human interaction.

IBM has also expanded its generative AI division, which has grown into a $6 billion business, offering tools that allow customers to build AI agents capable of autonomously carrying out complex tasks.

This shift reflects a broader trend where AI is reshaping job roles rather than simply eliminating them.

Several tech companies have started replacing HR professionals with AI agents to streamline operations and improve efficiency. Klarna, the fintech company replaced 700 customer service agents with AI chatbots to handle inquiries and transactions. Cisco, UPS, Duolingo, and Intuit have also integrated AI into their workforce, leading to job reductions in certain areas.

The trend is growing as businesses seek to optimize costs and enhance productivity.

10 Unique HR Recruitment Firms Supporting Startups in India

HR recruiting agencies in India streamline the hiring process, offer specialized knowledge, cost and time savings, access to a large talent pool, screening and assessment services, confidentiality, market insights, and flexibility. They benefit companies and job seekers by promoting better matches and enhancing talent acquisition efficiency. HR recruitment firms support startups in building strong teams, attracting top personnel, and expanding their market presence. There are companies pursuing the same goal that have excelled in the industry by giving their clients the best service available in every aspect.

Here is the list of some unique HR recruitment firms in India to watch out in 2023:

Biojobz

Established in 2007 by Dr. Ganesh Nikam, Biojobz is a specialized Executive search for the Bio-Pharma industry. It specializes in realizing how important it is to identify and secure the best personnel in accordance with organizational needs. Talent acquisition, industry talent landscape/mapping, and recruitment solutions for Indians who have returned from overseas are among the key offerings. The company also specializes in headhunting for Leadership roles in Research & Development, General Management, Engineering & Projects, Supply Chain, Quality, Strategy, R&D, Clinical Research, and Operations.

SutraHR

SutraHR is one of the top HR companies in India search firms which was founded in 2008. Pioneers in startup hiring, they’ve worked with over 500 clients since their inception. They realize the importance of hiring the right talent for growing your business. SutraHR has dedicated teams working on Tech, Non-Tech, Bulk, and Product requirements and has a TAT of 24 hours. They have clients spread across India and globally in places like Malaysia, Singapore, the Middle East, Indonesia, and the UK. With a strong team of recruiters and an exhaustive database, they close a position every 12 hours.

ZappyHire

Kochi, Kerala-based ZappyHire founded in 2018 by Deepu Xavier and Jyothis KS is an intelligent recruitment platform helping enterprises spot and onboard the best talent faster utilizing AI. Zappyhire’s intelligent recruitment platform helps users find the best candidates and improve time-to-hire while providing candidates with an amazing recruitment experience. Zappyhire’s AI-powered solution helps its users find the best people for their organization. It automates the recruitment process end-to-end and helps users make powerful decisions with insightful data.

ZingHR

Founded in 2014 by Prasad Rajappan, ZingHR offers a complete solution of the end-to-end processes in HR through Artificial Intelligence, Machine, and Deep Learning algorithms which help to improve employee performance and drives process efficiency in recruitment offer ease of leave, attendance, payroll, and claim management. It offers almost all web/mobile-based modules from Hire to Retire Solutions with a state-of-the-art tech supporting those applications. ZingHR has partnered with global and regional organizations like Microsoft, SHRM, and NHRDN for adding value to ZingHR's outreach program. It adopts an employee-centric, mobile-first approach covering the entire spectrum from employee recruitment to employee exit. It is been backed by Microsoft.

Bridgentech

Bridgentech is a boutique contract hiring staffing and solutions provider. BRIDGENTECH engages and distributes an exclusive global IT talent pool of Indian origin preferred by businesses of all sizes; Uniquely merging remote staffing, IT delivery, training, and recruitment processes into one customizable service. The company was founded in 2018 by Piyush Raj Akhoury. The company blends the best of contractual IT outsourcing with focused strategic IT recruitment.

Startup HR Toolkit

Mumbai-based StartupHR Toolkit founded in 2019 by Waqar Azmi is on a mission to change the way companies look at Human Resource Management. The toolkit has been carefully structured and designed by SutraHR based on their experience of managing HR operations for startups and established companies. One can customize them as per preferences and needs. The toolkit comprises documents related to COVID-19, employee policies, hiring, performance review, statutory, recruitment, HR forms, and HR letters.

CutShort.io

CutShort.io takes care for all hiring needs by matching with only relevant companies based on the candidate’s professional background, career interests and skill competencies. It uses matchmaking algorithm, gamification techniques and Artificial Intelligence for the internal screening process to track the candidate on professional social network platforms such as Githhub or Dribble and fetches recommendations that are confidential from ex-bosses or managers.

CutShort is also a comprehensive database on salaries which helps to check a candidate's value and salary based on metrics like industry experience and job title. CutShort.io aggregates all inbound applications in one place based on their relevance, skill strength, industry background, and recruiter's past action and uses machine learning to remove non-matching applications and highlight the strongest matching candidates.

Apna

Founded in 2019 by Nirmit Parikh, Apna follows a tech-driven approach to use the power of communities and enable access to better jobs and entrepreneurship for millions of Apna’s users. It comprises 60+ communities for skilled professionals like carpenters, painters, field sales agents, and many others.

The platform aims to double down on its ed-tech platform for skilling by continuing to invest in hiring exceptional talent and building world-class engineering and product capabilities. Apna users get access to local job opportunities, network with peers, practice for interviews, share their accomplishments, and gain new skills. The platform has onboarded more than 10 million users and 100,000+ employers etc.

Mettl

Mettl, a Gurugram-based HR technology startup, was launched in 2009 by Ketan Kapoor and Tonmoy Shingal with the goal of leveraging technology for hiring practices in Indian and global enterprises. This tech firm offers recruitment assessments, programming tests, psychometric tests, aptitude tests, a pre-built test library of more than 200 tests, an interview app, vocational skills assessment, remote proctoring, analytics in performance optimisation, and a certification platform. The company has its presence across 100 countries, serving over 1,800 clients globally.

Darwinbox

Darwinbox, an Indian Saas startup established in 2015 by Jayant Paleti, Chaitanya Peddi, and Rohit Chennamaneni, is a cloud-based HR solutions firm. The platform’s AI engine allows a recruiter to analyze a job description and employee profile picking up keywords to arrive at a certain ranking metric. This three-year-old HR tech brand serves over 100 clients, including Paytm, Ekart, Spencer’s, Delhivery, and others.

Avaali Announces ‘Kosha’, an HR Initiative for the Employees in Association With India’s Top Hospital

Avaali Solution, a specialist provider of digital solutions to enterprises, announced their Health and Wellness initiative - ‘Kosha’, a Sanskrit word that refers to the sheath or layer of the soul, in collaboration with the doctors of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals exclusively for the employees of Avaali.

The objective of this initiative is to provide free medical guidance to all employees and promote a healthy and happy workplace for them. Led by clinical experts, these weekly hour-long virtual sessions will be around health and physical and mental wellness. Avaali employees will have the opportunity to interact with veteran doctors at Apollo Hospital to discuss their health concerns.

The first session was conducted by a leading Clinical Dietician with Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals around the well-sought-after topic of ‘Immunity Building through Diet Amidst Air Pollution.’ The second session was conducted by Dr. Yash Gulati, Senior Consultant at the Division of Spine Surgery & Division of Joint Replacement, Orthopaedics at Apollo Hospital around body posture and bone health. The future sessions with the experts will cover topics such as cardiac health, mental health, and physical health in detail. The sessions were well received by the employees and they discussed their health problems with the doctors.

Speaking on the occasion, Srividya Kannan, Founder, and Director of Avaali Solutions said: “Building a great company culture requires one to acknowledge that employee’s well-being is as important as getting the work done. Just as society has become more diverse, so has today’s workforce, and with that comes the need for personalized benefits that will meet the specific needs of employees and their loved ones in order to live happier, healthier lives and achieve total well-being. The name Kosha is a constant reminder that our physical and mental needs have to be in sync with our spiritual growth and encourages us to take care of all aspects of ourselves. At Avaali Solutions, we are committed to leading the change in creating tangible programs that encourage active health and wellness, while increasing our focus and support on employee wellbeing.”

Dr. Yash Gulati, Senior Consultant at the Division of Spine Surgery & Division of Joint Replacement, Orthopaedics at Apollo Hospital “Generally we remain so busy that we struggle to find some time to check our health. Exercising, eating healthy, and taking required breaks, all these end up becoming our plans only and the corporate lifestyle only adds to the pressure that employees face. Hence prevention of such complications at an early stage becomes very important. Kosha- an initiative by Avaali is a fresh breath of air as corporations are taking care of their employees. It's also refreshing to see that wellness is being taken seriously, after all, wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit. It is the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.”

Kosha is a Sanskrit term that refers to the sheath or layer of the soul and has been associated with Yoga wellness practices over the years. It is believed that there are seven layers or koshas of the soul, and each layer represents a different level of spiritual growth and awareness.

About Avaali

Avaali is a leading provider of digital solutions to help reduce operational costs for upper mid to large enterprises. The company’s full featured Source to Pay Platform called Velocious significantly reduces the Sourcing, Procurement and Supply Chain cost for large enterprises. Under its services and consulting offerings, in partnership with various technology vendors the Company delivers P&L impact with digital. The company has executed over 200+ engagements for large marquee brands across Asia, MEA and parts of Europe. The company has done some of the largest and most complex shared service automation projects and consolidated, standardized and automated these processes. Their engagements have resulted in a 35-70% reduction in process cycle time and a 20-40% reduction in cost. Improved visibility, governance, and transparency are other themes that Avaali focuses on via these initiatives. The company has extensive skills in technologies such as ML-based ICR/IDP, enterprise content management, workflow automation solutions, chatbot, RPA, Process Mining, and digital signature. The company has a dominant presence in source-to-pay automation with over 120+ implementations in this space.

About Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals

Apollo revolutionized healthcare when Dr Prathap Reddy opened his first hospital in Chennai in 1983. Today Apollo is the world’s largest vertically integrated healthcare platform with over 10,000 beds across 71 hospitals, 5000 pharmacies and over 400 clinics and diagnostic centres as well as 150 telemedicine centres. It is the world’s leading cardiac centre with over 160,000 surgeries and the world’s largest private cancer care provider. Apollo continues to invest in research to bring cutting-edge technologies, equipment and treatment protocols to ensure our patients have the best available care in the world. Our 100,000+ employees are dedicated to bringing you the best care on earth and leaving the world better than we found it.

greytHR Launches greytFM Podcast Series for the HR Fraternity

greytHR, a leading HR & Payroll cloud platform, launched greytFM, a podcast for the HR community. In this podcast series, greytFM highlights stimulating debates and discussions focused on current issues mostly in the human resources sector.

Listeners may tune in to hear industry leaders/speakers discussing various subjects ranging from workplace diversity and HR IT trends to people analytics and the Great Resignation, to name a few. Listen to the podcasts on www.greythr.com/greytfm-podcast/

The podcast is accessible on 49 platforms, including Audioboom, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, JioSaavn, Podchaser, Player FM, Stitcher, iHeart, Listen Notes, Cast Box, and more.

Various speakers who have been featured on greytFM include Sameer Mathur, Global HR Head (Enterprise Capabilities), AECOM, Colin Mendes (Head of HR), Voltas Beko, Megha Gupta (Director-HR), Fiserv, Renu Bohra (CHRO), DB Schenker, Samar Banerjee (ex-Group Head-HR), Berger Paints India, and Rajiv Naithani (CVP & CPO), Infogain.

Commenting on the new initiative, Girish Rowjee, Co-founder & CEO, greytHR, said, "With greytFM, we intend to create awareness amongst the HR fraternity on numerous themes and concerns. We look forward to reaching out to various industries through this channel by providing expert domain-specific information."

Adding to this, Sayeed Anjum, Co-founder & CTO, greytHR, said, “Through greytFM, we monitor global trends that could have an impact on society. Through these series, we will be spotlighting interesting dialogues and conversations around trending themes from the world of human resources.”

10 Impressive HR Tech Startups That're Boosting Organizational Performance Through Their Tech-enabled Solutions

A new generation of HR tech startups is giving employers a competitive edge in the fight to attract and keep top talent. HR is by definition a people’s profession, and people are what make businesses go. Despite this, this very human, personal industry appears completely at ease with digital transformation.

The Human Resource solutions industry is undergoing constant change. Technological advancements are constantly taking place in the HR tech space. Technology-based solutions used by the HR industry are expected to lessen some of the stress on HR professionals, who historically work long hours and go unnoticed for all they do in the office. Operations will be streamlined by technology in the upcoming years, and businesses will have higher employee satisfaction as a result.

In sync with these technological changes taking place, the below is the list of ten HR Tech companies and startups that are dynamically working towards achieving efficient HR workflows using emerging technologies like AI, Machine Learning and NPU among others

Bridgentech

Bridgentech is a boutique Contract to Hire Staffing and Solutions provider. Bridgentech has been offering solutions to the IT industry, backed by capable and skilled candidates who can deliver since 2018. However, they realized that even though there are strong demand and supply forces in the industry, the “right-fit” or “trust-based-hiring” is still evolving & there’s a lot it takes to make that bond happen. So they started looking beyond Job Descriptions and Resumes.

They serve businesses with talented IT professionals through focused and differentiated recruitment processes, Skill-enhancing in-house training, inter-cultural gap bridging, incubation, and international migration support, blended into one-offering tailored to the client.

Bridgentech sources top-of-the-line IT operations engineers in the space of cloud, DevOps, and ContainerOps so that one can deliver the application across any platform with unprecedented agility, precision, and care. They find resources who can help with data consolidation, warehousing, intelligence, etc and assimilating it with scalable modern architectures and applications, thus maximizing its value.

NWORX

NWORX is a B2B SaaS platform used by professional development service providers or directly by enterprises across India, Europe, and Africa to improve the performance of leaders and professionals. NWORX offers engaging and effective leadership and professional development that is completely embedded in the flow of everyday work of a professional. The company aims to be the category leader in leadership and professional development addressing business challenges across growth, transformation and future-readiness of the workforce.

The services automated by the NWORX platform democratize professional development, managing human ROI in business terms.

Belong

Belong is the first predictive outbound hiring solution in the world. The brand's data-driven hiring solution assists growing businesses in identifying and engaging with candidates who best fit their requirements and are most likely to move. Vijay Sharma, a BITS Pilani alumnus, founded the brand in 2014, offering reduced hiring time, automated and personalized outreach, efficient applicant tracking, effective talent engagement, and integrating talent DNA to acquire and retain the best matches. 

The brand's Ml algorithms have enabled businesses to find and target high-fit talent, engage candidates with personalized engagements, and accelerate recruiting cycles at scale.

Mettl

Ketan Kapoor and Tonmoy Shingal founded Mettl, a Gurugram-based HR technology startup, in 2009 with the goal of leveraging technology for hiring practices in Indian and global enterprises. This technology company provides recruitment assessments, programming tests, psychometric tests, aptitude tests, a pre-built test library of over 200 tests, an interview app, vocational skills assessment, remote proctoring, performance analytics, and a certification platform. The company has a presence in 100 countries and serves over 1,800 clients worldwide.

iXceed Solutions

A Talent and Workforce Solutions services company, iXceed is a service provider to Fortune 500 companies and primarily focuses on these domains globally: Technology, IT consulting and Engineering Consulting.

The company uses Artificial Intelligence-based recruitment solutions to create an in-class experience for both clients and candidates. Some of their clients are- Infosys, HCL, Oracle, Mindtree, NIIT, etc. It is co-founded by Yogita Tulsian, who is also its Director.

InCruiter

Established in 2018, InCruiter is an online recruitment platform based on SAAS in the B2B space. InCruiter provides an Online Recruitment Marketplace for recruitment agencies and independent recruiters to speedup hiring process by 10x. 

The platform connects specialized recruiters with the best track records to the matching jobs. Multiple agencies working on a single job with a single point of contact makes hiring fast and efficient. This in turn enables employers for more accurately hiring with cost and time savings. InCruiter helps in finding you the best candidates in the shortest time without any hassle of phone calls, emails, invoices, and agreements from multiple vendors.

FlexC 

FlexC is an AI-driven talent marketplace for organisations to hire and manage their Hybrid Workforce. It acts as an uber for recruitment for its 150+ clients through its 200+ agency and 25K+ professional network.

FlexC offers an integrated SaaS platform to engage with agencies, hire talent (full time, contractual and remote), create milestones, pay invoices, all at one platform. The company also offers monitoring support to track the performance of the hybrid employees. Managers can track real-time productivity through an interactive dashboard and download performance reports.

Keka 

Keka is an HR automation software with the mission of solving complex HR challenges. It is essentially an HRMS and Payroll software provider. A SaaS employee experience platform, Keka combines HR, payroll, ATS and performance management in a single suite of tools. It simplifies common tasks and allows organizations to seamlessly manage human resources processes.

Unlike the traditional HR systems, Keka focused on solving complex HR problems in a simple and intuitive way. The product enables organizations to manage their HR processes from hire to retire while ensuring an awesome user experience for the employees. 

Quandle

Qandle is all-in-one cloud-based HR Solution startup focused on redesigning the HR software from the employees’ perspective. Quandle has launched various solutions to address different facets of the HR department in organizations across all sectors, including - Remote Work Toolkit, Touchless Attendance, Qanbot (HR tasks chatbot), PeoplePro (Free community for HR professionals) etc.

Last year in April, Quandle launched an AI-powered HR chatbot called ‘Qanbot’ that helps automate daily HR tasks of employees and automate and address the day-to-day general queries of employees on behalf of the HR department. Later in October, Quandle launched the beta version of EasyBoard, an AI enabled onboarding chatbot, to make new hire onboarding a seamless experience for the candidates and corporations, both. 

Moveworks

Moveworks is the first employee experience platform that uses conversational AI to solve issues and prevent problems at work. It automatically resolves requests, communicates changes, and shows the team what to fix next. The platform automatically resolves employees’ HR requests, including benefits inquiries, PTO applications, payroll questions, and more.

Moveworks' conversational AI is fluent in nine languages. The company claims that its AI platform gives employees support in seconds, just by asking for what they need, and enables leaders to prevent problems in advance.  Among its clientele, Moveworks counts companies like Hearst, DocuSign, and Broadcom among others.

SutraHR Launches India’s 1st HR Toolkit

SutraHR has been a pioneer of startup hiring in India. Their experience is immense, having recruited 5000+ professionals over the past decade. At the start of the pandemic, when many companies went on hiring freeze, SutraHR saw an opportunity in HR documents space and launched India's 1st HR TOOLKIT - 'StartupHR Toolkit'. The idea behind StartupHR Toolkit is to make HR Documentation an easy and quick process. Today, more than 12000 organizations are using StartupHR Toolkit.

It is a known fact that making HR Docs is a time-consuming process. Creating these documents, policies, letters, etc., is not an easy task, especially in the ever-evolving Startup and SME Industry. Imagine wasting precious time in writing and making documents, which in itself would not be an affordable thing to do. This has generated demand for a product like StartupHR Toolkit, which consists of ready-to-use HR document templates. 

Being in the HR industry for more than a decade helped SutraHR understand the need for a product that makes the whole documentation process hassle-free. StartupHR Toolkit majorly targets SMEs and businesses that cannot afford to have a designated HR Manager or HR Department. Even if there is a designated HR Department, StartupHR Toolkit makes their lives hassle-free and focuses on other essential aspects of the business. The StartupHR Toolkit is designed to save both time and money.

StartupHR Toolkit is the smartest way to make HR Docs. They aim to be the go-to product when it comes to the HR documentation process. The toolkit contains 1000+ Job Descriptions, 200+ Employee Policies, 90+ HR Manuals, 60+ Letter Templates, 200+ HR forms and much more.

Mr. Waqar Azmi, Founder & CEO, StartupHR Toolkit, said, "Our experience of over a decade in the HR domain has made us aware of the many problems which an HR Professional faces in their day-to-day life. HR documentation is one of them. Official documents create credibility for the employer by showing that employees are treated fairly and consistently. We have compiled over 2000+ HR Docs from some of the most experienced HR professionals in the industry. All of the documents are legally compliant and are up to date. Our vision is to be the go-to destination for any HR Docs and in the process help employers build a strong relationship with their employees."

StartupHR Toolkit offers its customers ready-to-use HR Templates to make the documentation process hassle-free. The StartupHR Toolkit offers is available for a minimal amount of Rs. 3,499 for 1 year and Rs 19,999 for lifetime access and free updates.

StartupHR Toolkit is a fully integrated digital product, it can be bought online at www.startuphrtoolkit.com. Once you complete the payment, you can download all the templates in one click.

About SutraHR:

SutraHR is one of Asia's fastest-growing HR companies that aspire to be amongst the top three HR companies based in India in the next two years. The aim is to become a highly experiential and inspiring HR brand. SutraHR works with companies in the e-commerce, mobile, and new-age technology space, where companies go from zero to billion dollars in less than five years. As a market leader, the company has a massive advantage of revolutionizing HR practices in India. SutraHR is a multi-million dollar enterprise having the strength of 60+ employees and gunning for 100+ employees in a year's time.

MissMalini Entertainment Steps into Talent Management World By Launching Ignite Edge, A New Talent Management Vertical

The newly launched talent management division seeks to foster the country’s exponentially growing creative digital talent.

Mumbai, 6th September 2021: In an exciting new development, India’s leading new media network, MissMalini Entertainment, announces the launch of its brand-new talent management vertical, Ignite Edge. In true MissMalini fashion, the launch was accompanied by a star-studded party at The Game Palacio, Bandra, with the who’s who of the media and entertainment industry in attendance.

Helmed by Khushi Govil, Ignite Edge is a comprehensive springboard for digital creators, influencers and celebrities - offering strategic guidance to a sensational career in digital entertainment, all while incubating, nurturing and celebrating the melting pot of emerging homegrown talent.

Malini Agarwal - Founder MissMalini and Creative Director of Girl Tribe by MissMalini

 Explaining the core vision behind Ignite Edge, Malini Agarwal - Founder - MissMalini Entertainment, says, “With the recent rise of creators and influencers making fascinating content in the digital space, our team recognized their talent. But the intricacies of talent management include a great deal more than simply accompanying the artist. With Ignite Edge, we aim to foster the talent’s growth in content, revenue, IPs and much more by becoming a holistic digital talent management company synonymous with overall ‘talent development.’ ”

Khushi Govil- Associate Vice President, Talent, MissMalini Entertainment.

Khushi Govil - Associate Vice President, Talent | MissMalini Entertainment, while talking about embarking on the new venture, said, “The digital talent space is flourishing with new, emerging talents going a step ahead to break creative boundaries and carving their own niche in the industry. Ignite Edge is a highly driven team coming from varied backgrounds of media, fashion and commerce - who want to grow with this emerging new talent by creating online and offline opportunities and ensuring that they influence their audience to bring a positive impact in the society.”

The talent management vertical seeks to create a powerful, well-built mechanism that not only enables but empowers the creative talent of this country. Their focal point is the overall development and growth of an artist by facilitating quality content creation (from ideation to post-production) and higher visibility in the booming digital landscape. Alongside encouraging a culture of collaboration with talents from diverse genres and relevant brands - Ignite Edge will work with their artists on multiple aspects of talent management, including creating a brand for themselves and promoting them by running PR pegs.

Mike Melli - Co-founder & CRO | MissMalini Entertainment, said, “Ignite Edge assists artists to create unique content coupled with engaging stories by strategizing and moulding itself with changing times. We aim to provide talents with an edge in the world of digital showbiz by not just managing them but by creating opportunities for them in their digital journey.”

Founded by Malini Agarwal in 2008 with a laptop on her couch, MissMalini Entertainment pioneered Indian lifestyle blogging with the launch of MissMalini.com, India’s first and most popular Entertainment, Fashion and Lifestyle blog attracting millions of loyal visitors every month. This foray into talent management brings a powerful new arm to the portfolio of the new media network.

Ignite Edge will work with emerging and established artists; launching with a roster that includes well-known names like Shakti Arora, Karenvir Bohra, Amruta Khanvilkar, Shriya Jain, Nyra Banerjee, Aarya Vora, Teejay Sidhu, Vidhushree Arya, Bella & Vienna, Aishwarya Sakhuja, Abhishek Banerjee, Abhishek Bajaj, Vivek Dhadha, Malini Agarwal, Elina Hsiung, Karishma Govil and Gia Venessa Snow.

India’s Leading HRMS Service Provider Keka Is Gearing Up to Hire 150-200 New Employees Till Fy 2022

75 percent of the openings will be in the tech department while the rest 25 per cent will witness opportunities for non-tech roles

New Delhi 13th Aug 2021: The leading HRMS and Payroll software provider, Keka, is all set to increase the hiring opportunities available in the company with its recent announcement. Within the next two years, the company will be doubling its employee strength with 150-200 new hires. The determination to further revolutionize the HR world and the zeal to continue thriving has paved the way for Keka to expand its employee size.

The move directs the brand’s focus on expanding its product’s technical assistance and developing a strong tech-enabled customer service to not just strengthen the software further but also to remain firmer on its “people-first” mindset. The hiring will allow freshers and experienced professionals of various domains to apply to one of the fastest growing tech companies in India. Apart from tech-related roles, several non-tech jobs will be filled up, including across different departments like product, customer success, sales, HR and more.

The approximate number of hires of be made till FY 2022 in different categories are as follows:

• Sales- 40 job openings
• Tech- 60 job openings
• Customer Service- 60 job openings
• Other departments- 40 job openings

Final year students will also have opportunities in the form of internship through college placements.

Speaking about the company’s aim with this new announcement, Vijay Yalamanchili, Founder of Keka, said, “These hirings are a crucial part of the next growth phase. With the addition of learned and skilled employees, we aim at building a deep tech-enabled interface in our existing software, thereby catering the best services to our employees. This expansion will also help in accelerating our vision of growth and enabling an even better customer service experience for our clients.”

During its journey, Keka ascertained the industry’s need for an enhanced, tech-enabled, real-time and instantaneous client service, essential in the current pandemic-induced remote working set-up. Its employee expansion is a crucial part of this vision to serve customers better.

Keka is determined to hire nearly 65 per cent of the Freshers with 0-3 years of experience in the field. The next 20 per cent will hire Mid-level professionals having 2-5 years of experience while the remaining 15 per cent will have openings for Senior-level leadership roles.

Keka has an employee size of close to 250, including interns. This provides an excellent environment of a corporate world and with its next hiring season, the company will be a great opportunity to work with, given its growth-centric guidance and training given to every employee. Ideal candidates would have knowledge of Payroll software and the HR department as well.

The company’s association of talent and behavior with productivity in terms of recruitment to expand the family has brought them to where they are today. Keka’s employee-first mindset did not let the pandemic’s wrath affect the employees’ salaries. Moreover, no layoffs were made during the time when other companies were sacking nearly 50 per cent of their workforce.

When asked about the key skills needed to earn a position at Keka, the company representative said that they screen candidates based on their knowledge of the role, behaviour and dedication. A hard-working attitude matched with an analytical approach towards work and a passion to excel at what they do will help candidates stand out from the crowd. Keka believes in fostering the personal career growth of its employees as well and is looking forward to hire candidates who are ambitious.

About Keka:

Keka is on a mission to create inspiring digital workplaces where employees can do their best work. It all started when Vijay Y and Sashi P wanted to implement an HR software in their growing IT services organization. Frustration due to the existing inefficient HR products in the Indian market and their poor user experience drove them to create an HRMS product, which the Indian HR fraternity truly deserved. Thus in 2015, the Keka product journey began. 

Unlike the traditional HR systems, Keka focused on solving complex HR problems in a simple and intuitive way. The product enables organizations to manage their HR processes from hire to retire while ensuring an awesome user experience for the employees. This is the major reason Keka has been embraced by 3750+ organizations within just 4.5 years. Keka, which coined the term Employee Experience Software, is loved by more than 300,000 employees in India. Recognized by some as the growing market leader and by others as HR tech disruptor, Keka has become the Tesla(TM) of Indian HR products.

HackerEarth Announces Integration with LinkedIn Talent Hub to Streamline Technical Recruitment Workflow

The LinkedIn Talent Hub integration with HackerEarth Assessment enables companies to screen tech talent efficiently and scale their entire hiring process

BANGALORE / SAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2021 - HackerEarth, a leading solutions provider for remote developer hiring needs, today announced a new integration between its online technical-recruitment tool HackerEarth Assessment and LinkedIn Talent Hub. This integration brings the power of HackerEarth’s highly accurate coding assessments and developer screening to the only ATS built on the LinkedIn network with more than 690 million members.

Linkedin Talent Hub allows customers to source, manage, and hire via a single integrated platform. This integration with HackerEarth Assessment will layer in the ability for recruiters and hiring managers to easily screen applicants and create customized coding assessments, pulling from an extensive library of questions that cover 80+ skills and 12+ job roles — all without leaving Talent Hub.

"Competition for developers, data scientists and other tech talent is hotter than ever before”, said Sachin Gupta, CEO of HackerEarth. “Ensuring every candidate is placed in the right role based on their skills is critical to reducing employee turnover and increasing job satisfaction. This integration with LinkedIn Talent Hub hones the screening and assessment process for recruiters and hiring managers, but also ensures the most positive experience for candidates before, during and after the interview.”

When utilizing the LinkedIn Talent Hub integration feature, users will be able to:

• Schedule and invite candidates to take assessments from within Linkedin Talent Hub. Each candidate’s HackerEarth Assessment score and performance report will be synced with the Talent Hub dashboard instantly, making this data easily accessible for all team members.
• Save time by eliminating the back and forth between the LinkedIn ATS and HackerEarth’s platform. All candidate information, assessment data, status of the hiring stage, and scorecards will be accessible on the LinkedIn Talent Hub platform.

"Partnering with HackerEarth helps to further streamline the candidate hiring experience”, says Katherine Tsay, Senior Manager, Business Development at LinkedIn. “We will continue to work closely to ensure our customers can source, manage, and hire candidates all in one place.”

LinkedIn users can read more about the HackerEarth Assessments integration here: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/talent-hub/integrations/HackerEarth

HR Tech Firm Qandle launches ‘Qanbot’ - AI powered HR bot solution

Qandle – an HRMS startup, has launched a new AI HR chat-bot called ‘Qanbot’ that helps automate daily HR tasks of employees. The idea behind the solution is to automate and address the day-to-day general queries of employees on behalf of the HR department. The solution makes it easy to keep the workforce updated on their leave policies, holidays, leave balances and allows them to apply for leaves and time offs, request attendance regularizations, request assets for performing their roles better, and raise helpdesk tickets for issues they are facing.

Through Qanbot, Qandle has added significant convenience to both employees and the HR teams, especially in the current remote working scenario, which makes it difficult to reach out to the HR for small queries. The solution easily reduces the hassle for HR managers’ tasks of recording the employee data, checking, replying, reminding etc.

An employee can simply type or select the query on the bot. A product of cutting- edge technology, QanBot also recognizes voice requests and performs the necessary functions.

“With the launch of Qanbot, we are increasing the overall productivity of the HR department as well as the employees. In organizations with 100 or more employees, HRs have to spend a lot of time addressing day-to-day queries of different employees. Most of these are monotonous and are not the best use of their time. It affects the return on man-hours of the department as well. We are a technology first company and are trying to increase the efficiency of the HR teams through new age solutions,” said Mr. Chayan Mukhopadhyay, Co-founder and CEO of Qandle.

The brand has been working towards automating all the recurrent and manual HR and admin tasks in various organizations to the maximum possible extent. The platform aims to serve over 300 new organizations through the new chat-bot solution.

About Qandle

Qandle, an All-In-One HR tech Platform, launched in 2018, is a young start-up focused on redesigning the HR software from the employees’ perspective. Founded by Chayan Mukhopadhyay (CO-Founder and CEO) and Himanshu Aggarwal (CO-Founder and CTO), Qandle distinguishes itself as a comprehensive solution which covers the entire gamut of HR activities – from hire to retire. Qandle is a modular and extremely configurable solution for HRs looking to deliver the next-generation experience to their employees. Qandle serves over 400 clients spread across 30+ countries.

How this Bootstrapped Company Drove to Become the Leader of the Industry - The Success Story of Keka HR

With frustration due to the inefficiency of the existing HR automation software that sucked, Vijay and Sashi founded Keka, a people’s platform. It was built to relieve HRs of their repetitive, mundane tasks for helping them focus on the core assets of their company- the employees. Being in the same shoes once upon a time as their current customers, Keka understood the pain points when it came to HR and hence, believed the Indian HR ecosystem deserved a much better and productive software.

However, seldom do you come across people and firms that flourish in their field without any backing, reference or funding, and those who do, make it big, big enough for the world to acknowledge their mighty presence. This aligns with the story of Keka. With no external shareholders, funding, investments or sponsors, Keka rose to become the leader of the Indian HR market.

While quenching their thirst for distinctly efficient and productive software, Keka entered the sector with no monetary support from investors and thrived on its founder’s savings. The company blossomed into the most recognized, trusted and productive software service provider by functioning through the revenue it generated.

Born in the city of pearls, Keka is a Hyderabadi product with a completely native name too that has a pretty interesting back story. Its founders wanted to call it a simple yet powerful label that screams the scale of its capability. Keka refers to “Awesome” in the Telugu language and according to its customers and employees, the company translates to the adjective in every aspect.

The vacuum that existed before Keka disrupted the market was replaced by the value it brings today to the table. It empowered the HR technology of the country to look eye to eye with globally acclaimed entities. And Keka celebrates this fact. It believes in fostering the HR ecosystem to elevate the value of the market and has set a benchmark in the process for others to follow.

Keka was created with an employee-first mindset. The company is on a mission to create digital workplaces where employees can flourish to do their best. This ideology has allowed them to create doors where there was no scope of even a window.

With its expertise and vast knowledge regarding the HR sphere, Keka dumped traditional clunky interfaces to create an efficient modern-day one-of-its-kind software. The momentum and trust gained in the 4 and half years of its existence has instilled a determination to polish the product further and not just sit back to drench in the new found success.

When Keka first stepped into the field in 2016, it was welcomed warmly as it helped the HR experts and their employees to adopt the software better due to its simplicity.

Keka is a name that redefined the universe of HR by transforming the otherwise complex and cumbersome arena to a simple and easily manageable form of work.

The 3000+ customers figure was not an easy one to obtain but could be possible through the undying work of the awesome employees of the cohesive organization. With features powered to tune in with an array of HR processes, Keka remains a client-favorite with less than a 3.5% churn rate.

With one of the lowest attrition rates, Keka is loved by all its workers. Every employee here has a sense of extreme ownership. They believe in leveraging their skills for the company while taking responsibility for the work they do. The company instilled this philosophy in their product too as it aims to produce self-accountability and transparency for its customers’ employees through its use.

Keka understands the nuances that come with products and the industry in general and holds a level of sharpness and skill to tackle it in depth. It left an unparalleled impact on the sectors of IT & IT services, pharmaceutical manufacturing, professional service organizations, consultancies, accounting business houses, taxations and several others, propelling companies to leverage themselves.

The array of features it offers today, including performance management system, leave and attendance track sheet, goal management system and more, aid companies in leveraging the potential of their employees, thereby creating a substantial amount of growth for the organization.

Their core appeals to simplicity and they aim to achieve this ease of use and understanding for every customer who is sailing in the same boat as others when it comes to HR and its challenges.

With an impressive set of values and deep-seated knowledge of the HR arena, Keka aspires to take its ideologies to practice. They are looking to create a work environment where people feel safe, share a common goal, and go home fulfilled- content with the work they are doing and the results their efforts are translating to.

People Matters launches BeNext, its own digital platform for cohort-based courses (CBC), and enters into a new business segment to amplify its impact in Leadership & HR

- Cohort-based courses (CBC) are emerging as a highly effective methodology in the digital learning space. CBCs increase retention, accountability and make the learning journey a lot more engaging for learners

- Our courses are centered around the concepts of bla bla and blee blee. Currently, we have 18 programs, typically running at a frequency of once a quarter.

- Over 1200 learners have already been certified through People Matters BeNext in the last 6 months on the beta version of the product. Organizations and companies enrolled include talent leaders from PepsiCo, TataSteel, Diageo, Deutsche Bank, GE, Lego, Maybank, OCBC and NTUC and many more.

- Each four-week journey includes live masterclasses with industry-expert instructors like Matthew Kressy Founding Director, Integrated Design & Management, MIT; Jan Krogel Head of Employee Experience and People Analytics; Capgemini; Tanuj Kapilashrami, CHRO, Standard Chartered Bank; Liam McNally Diversity and Inclusion Partner, GitLab Inc; Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder Nearbuy.com, and many more.

GURGAON, India, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- At a time when capability building is at the top of the agenda for CHROs in 2021, talent leaders are seeking the best digital learning solutions for their workforce. People Matters launched People Matters BeNext to fulfill that need, offering a suite of unique Cohort-based Certification Programs designed to empower leaders and HR teams to excel in this new world of work.

People Matters has always been committed to boosting the impact of the HR community. BeNext Certification Programs are the result of months of research, conversations with industry leaders and discussions with talent professionals about what is needed NOW and what will be needed in the FUTURE.

Digital Cohort-based courses (CBC) increase retention, accountability and make the learning journey a lot more engaging for learners. In the last few months, People Matters BeNext has certified over 1,200 leaders from across the region with a unique learning journey that places the community at the center of its design. All BeNext cohort-based certifications are accredited by HRCI.

Commenting on the learning from building CBC, People Matters' CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Ester Martinez shared, "We believe that the social aspect increases success in completing learning objectives; Further, a carefully designed mix of synchronous and asynchronous components gives learners the opportunity to be in control of their learning, focus on outcomes & improve their professional network."

Leaders from academia, business & entrepreneurship are invited to bring their expertise in the learner journey. "Cannot be more excited to join hands with the super high energy People Matters team, to launch an exciting CBC on 'building winning teams', exclusively focused on high-growth organizations," shares Ankur Warikoo, Founder Nearbuy.com, Mentor & Angel Investor.

What makes BeNext courses stand-out is their mixture of synchronous and asynchronous learning, along with the community-driven cohort structure. BeNext is not a solo journey but designed to be started together and completed together. Talking about the design journey, Rohit Shenoy, Global Head L&D, DXC Technologies, shares, "This is the best combination of asynchronous and synchronous learning blended with social learning and learning from experts that I have experienced." Avinash Kholi, Executive Director - Leadership, Learning, and Organizational Capability, Boeing, adds that it is "designed with all the right ingredients of best-in-class facilitators, content, and community for maximum learning, engagement, and impact".

BeNext is launching 17 programs for this year in the areas of Hybrid Productivity to Enable people managers & HR teams to maximize productivity, engagement & innovation in distributed, hybrid and remote teams; HR Transformation to Enabling HR & Business leaders to design HR initiatives that are desirable, feasible & viable both human-centered & impactful to business; Diversity, Inclusion & Balance to enable organizations to accelerate the impact of D&I initiatives and shift the needle in their diversity & inclusion KPIs; and, Building winning teams for founders and executives of high growth start-ups to attract retain the best and design culture of ownership and success.

Organizations and companies enrolled include talent leaders from PepsiCo, TataSteel, Diageo, Deutsche Bank, GE, Lego, Maybank, OCBC and NTUC, and many more. Pilar Orti, Author of Thinking Remote shared that BeNext is the "best use of the online space".

All programs are structures as four week journeys with live masterclasses with industry-expert instructors like Matthew Kressy Founding Director, Integrated Design & Management, MIT; Jan Krogel Head of Employee Experience and People Analytics; Capgemini; Tanuj Kapilashrami, CHRO, Standard Chartered Bank; Liam McNally Diversity and Inclusion Partner, GitLab Inc; Ankur Warikoo, Co-founder Nearbuy.com, and many more.

Check People Matters BeNext Programs: http://bit.ly/PMBENEXT

About People Matters

People Matters is a community of CHROs, Business and Government leaders committed to the advancement of talent & work practices for superior & sustainable business impact. Thriving on

Innovation, People Matters has continued to be a pioneer of insightful, impactful, and the most sought-after content for talent leaders in Asia. People Matters engages with over 350,000 talent leaders in the region to challenge, transform and enrich the way HR technology & talent management practices contribute to business growth and success. People Matters is the proud owner of digital and tech platforms for talent leaders, state-of-the-art virtual conferences, innovative physical events, and other digital properties.

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How To Streamline Payroll and HR Operations Using Tech For Scalable Stratups

Streamlining is a process designed to make the business more efficient and productive by cutting unnecessary steps and work processes.

In today’s world, it is essential to become efficient to make more profits. Here is a guide on how you can streamline your company’s Payroll and HR operations processes easily within a set of modern infrastructure.

Streamlining a Company’s Payroll Process

Technology helps the company make the payroll process more streamlined and helps them achieve full data privacy about compliance in a straightforward manner. Payroll is one of the crucial tasks that can be easily streamlined by using technology. Payroll management is the first set of HR services that became computerized many years ago. For example, an employee’s pay record is one of the highly legislated types that a company needs to keep.

By using the best payroll software to streamline the payroll data, the company can save a lot of time energy as well as precious human resource.

Outsourcing the Payroll

Suppose a person has a small business and cannot afford to employ any full-time payroll personnel. Then outsourcing your way through the payroll processes might be the best idea.

You can outsource your payrolls with the help of the following steps

• Determine the company’s needs:
  Knowing a company’s needs helps you understand your plans.

• Do a proper research
  Do proper research and gain knowledge about which outsourcing company you would like to use.

• Make a connection
  After you decide, you have to make a connection between your company and the outsourcing company.

Onboarding with Payroll

Employee onboarding is one of the most effective programs that has become very popular in the business world. With the help of the following steps, you can start the onboarding programs:
Have your employees do their paperwork daily

Have a payroll system in the company that facilitates onboarding, rather than having payroll personnel who puts their information on your system.

Onboarding means that employees can work without having to delay their payroll processes with their paperwork.

Employee Benefit Integration

Many businesses employ third-party agencies to handle their employee benefits. There you can streamline your payroll process by trying to integrate services solutions in the company’s payroll system. It works when your company hires outside agencies to manage the employees.

It reduces unnecessary costs and tension and eases the work cycle, as handling employees' workload is divided.

Reduce Payroll Frequency

It can serve as a fantastic way to streamline the payroll process effectively.

A company can do that by contacting their employees’ weekly, bi-monthly, three times a month. To achieve streamlining your company’s payroll process, you can follow the following tips

• Rather than paying the employees multiple times, pay them once, as that would mean the company will not have to pay for full-time payroll personnel.
• The company can hire someone who can work few days of the month and does all the paperwork.

Apart from Streamline payroll methods, you can kick start their growth by streamlining the company's HR Operations.

Streamlining Their HR Operations

HR operations are the services that a human resource department and a company’s HR professionals provide to other business units' departments. The HR functions as a cover for the entire employee lifecycle in a small business recruiting processes, administration, performance management, benefits administration, absence management, and off-boarding of employees. These functions are often referred to as HR activities in a company.

With the help of the following methods, a company can streamline its HR operations easily.

Work Paperless

In today’s world, an office paperwork system is not important at all. Using computers helps you save time that a person would normally spend trying to access a physical file from a storeroom. It is because the technology era has helped make work easy and fast with fewer errors. It also saves office space, and it makes the documents even more comfortable to shift and move.

Here are some ways that help you manage your documents and streamlines your processes:

• It gives a person instant access to their employee documents via email or a human resource information system.
• It can electronically capture and store all the documents and keep them in one place, so they do not waste time finding them.
• It increases the level of security by locking the documents with a password or other security options.
• In one place and time, it can give you all the information you need on your employees.

Outsourcing of HR Operations

The company is responsible for overseeing employee payroll and tax filing of employees’ benefits and health administration, legal compliance, and other things like maintaining the new and old employees' files and records, looking after their training development. There are many ways in which a business can outsource its HR operations:

• Business process HR outstanding: It is done by getting an external supplier to manage and discrete HR activities
• Shared service HR outsourcing: It is only done when the transaction or any administrative elements of a company’s HR department’s activates are subcontracted to an external supplier
• Application service HR outsourcing occurs when an external provider looks after all the technological infrastructure that supports the HR department.

Outsourcing is a great way to ease the HR work cycle. There are majorly two advantages of using outsourcing in HR work

• Risk Management
• Cost Savings

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing helps the HR people in an excellent way to streamline their departmental work and processes. A company can achieve that by following the steps below:

• Have computers with adequate internet supply placed in the office
• Have a cloud application for storing all the files and information of the employees in it
• Have all the information password protected. It has its advantages
• Less physical space needed for other digital records
• It makes the availability of information universal as long as you have an internet connection.
• Leaving all the task of maintaining the cloud information to others
• Companies can have HR onboarding software that would help them track the work and information about all the new employees in a company.

Divide and Conquer

When the work is divided in a company, it helps the employees to work with peace of mind. It is important to divide the work among all the employees according to their capabilities. Even in the HR department, if they have new recruitments, the company can know their work stats every day with the help of modern communication skills.

Once the work is divided amongst the employees, it does not matter where they do the job. With easy access to technology; they can even finish their work at their homes. A company can divide its work into the following steps

• Know who is best at what and assign tasks accordingly
• Work smartly and use technology to cut costs
• Have WIFI which has stable internet connection so the work does not slow down due to bad internet
• Have proper breaks and shifts for every employee so they remain fresh while working.

Bottom Line

There are many ways that technology can help the HR departments that have been outlined above.

These tips help increase the levels of employee engagement in the company. The payroll is one of the first technological solutions that the HR department all over the world embraced.

Even the small companies had taken up the technology to streamline payrolls in their companies. In the modem payroll systems, they are integrated with other businesses or applications, and they are extended to function excellently.

HCL Technologies Named a Prestigious World’s Best Employer by Forbes

HCL Technologies, (HCL), a leading global technology company, has been named by Forbes as one of The World’s Best Employers for 2020, honoring HCL among the top global employers in the world. In addition to being ranked number 30 on the list, HCL is recognized as the only multinational company that is headquartered in India to be featured in the top 50. 

Forbes’ The World’s Best Employers for 2020 list recognizes the most admired workplaces around the world as voted by the people who know them best – their employees. HCL is recognized for its outstanding work environment in every assessment category, including employee satisfaction with the company’s COVID-19 response, as well as the company’s image, economic footprint, talent development and career opportunities, gender equality and social responsibility. 

“We dedicate this prestigious recognition to our employees as all 159,000 ideapreneurs drive our brand with enthusiasm, passion and innovation. This distinction is reflective of our people-centric culture and commitment, deep rooted in our 44 years of business around the globe,” said Apparao VV, Chief Human Resources Officer, HCL Technologies. “We’re very proud of what we have built together and will continue to empower our people, clients and communities to help them achieve their professional goals in an environment filled with creativity, freedom, inclusiveness, ideapreneurship and innovation." 

Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to compile the ranking by surveying 160,000 full-time and part-time workers from 58 countries that are working for businesses with operations in multiple nations or regions. Surveys were conducted on a rolling basis from June to July 2020 and participants were asked to rate their willingness to recommend their own employers to friends and family, while ranking their satisfaction with their employers in multiple categories that are important to today’s modern and competitive work environment. The complete list features 750 global corporations headquartered in 45 countries.

To see the full Forbes The World’s Best Employer List visit here: https://www.forbes.com/lists/worlds-best-employers/#23688cab1e0c

 

About HCL Technologies
 

HCL Technologies (HCL) empowers global enterprises with technology for the next decade, today. HCL’s Mode 1-2-3 strategy, based on its deep-domain industry expertise, customer-centricity and entrepreneurial culture of Ideapreneurship™, enables businesses to transform into next-gen enterprises.

HCL offers its services and products through three business units: IT and Business Services (ITBS), Engineering and R&D Services (ERS) and Products & Platforms (P&P). ITBS enables global enterprises to transform their businesses through offerings in the areas of applications, infrastructure, digital process operations and next generational digital transformation solutions. ERS offers engineering services and solutions in all aspects of product development and platform engineering. P&P provides modernized software products to global clients for their technology and industry specific requirements. Through its cutting-edge co-innovation labs, global delivery capabilities and broad global network, HCL delivers holistic services in various industry verticals, categorized as Financial Services, Manufacturing, Technology & Services, Telecom & Media, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Public Services.

 

As a leading global technology company, HCL takes pride in its diversity, social responsibility, sustainability and education initiatives. For the 12 months ended December 31, 2020 HCL had consolidated revenue of US$ 10.02 billion. Its 159,682 ideapreneurs operate out of 50 countries. For more information, visit www.hcltech.com

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Wipro Recognised as Top Employer 2021 in Australia for the Second Consecutive Year

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has been recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer in Australia, for 2021, for the second consecutive year. 

 
This prestigious certification recognized 1600 Top Employers in 120 countries. The evaluation is based on their HR Best Practices Survey that covers 6 HR domains consisting of 20 topics such as People Strategy, Work Environment, Talent Acquisition, Learning, Well-being and Diversity & Inclusion and more. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices. 
 
Wipro has excelled in areas such as Learning & Development, Talent Strategy, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, Onboarding and Performance Management – all of which are pertinent to the company’s employee development and growth initiatives across operations in Australia and New Zealand.
 
David Plink, CEO, Top Employers Institute said, “Despite the challenging year we have experienced (which has certainly made an impact on organisations around the globe), Wipro has continued to demonstrate the power of putting their people first in the workplace. We are proud to share this year’s announcement and congratulate the organisations who have been certified in their respective countries through the Top Employers Institute programme.”
 
N.S. Bala, CEO, APMEA Strategic Market Unit, Wipro Limited said, “We are excited with this achievement as it is a testament to Wipro’s best-in-class people practices. This prestigious certification underscores our sustained efforts towards nurturing our employees and ensuring their well-being amidst the global pandemic.  We have actively prioritized our employees’ professional development to align with the emerging technology and domain needs of our clients. I extend my congratulations to all our employees, clients and partners who have made this journey possible for us."

The Ways That Artificial Intelligence Has Revived HR Management

Have you guys seen Ra.One? Maybe ROBOT? What about Wall.E? Passengers? Terminator? Now don’t tell me you haven’t watched Avengers: The Age Of Ultron! If you haven’t seen any one of these movies, don’t talk to me! Just kidding. You might be wondering, what have these examples got anything to do with this topic?

The game character Ra.One literally came out of the game! Vaseegaran created Chitti to help the human beings, giving him AI to evaluate the problems; he ended up destroying the entire town trying to make the female protagonist ‘his own’. Remember how Wall.E and Eve brought some sense to the human race and saved the planet from the evil, spacecraft AI that stopped humans from inhabiting Earth? Avalon - the AI-based spaceship in passengers, could detect the problems in the system and show them with the help of a hologram. One of the greatest humanoid robots, Ultron, sustains the position of the most daunting AI characters in Avengers: Age of Ultron (besides Vision - the most human AI characters). I mean, that man can control other robots, who wouldn’t be scared of him?

These movies have set certain notions about Artificial Intelligence in human minds. AI is what will cause the apocalypse where Artificial Intelligence will take over the human brains, and we will be mere servants at the feet of the AI operated mechanics. However, the past several years have proven to us that AI is not as evil as our Hollywood and Bollywood friends show it to be. If anything, AI has proved to be nothing more but an assistant to the human race, contributing to making our lives easier.

Over the years, AI has been backing the tedious work processes and simplifying it for us to save time and efforts. Agriculture, farming, retail shopping, fashion, inventory, social media, web-searching, diagnosis and treatments, and every other niche that you can think of, now uses Artificial Intelligence to achieve better, accurate results and error-free outcomes.

What Is Artificial Intelligence?

It is exactly what the name suggests - intelligence that is artificial. It refers to the computer science that creates machines that are smart enough to perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence to function. Such machines can identify, judge, and respond like an unbiased human brain would and hold the ability to learn from the past experiences - more like a human brain sans emotions.

Contribution Of Artificial Intelligence In Human Resources

While every profession, every department, every authority uses this technology to simplify their work, why would human resource management - the department with the most complex work processes - stay out of this system’s reach? With increasing technological advancements, human resource management has started weaving AI in its intricate processes. So far, AI has made notable contributions to this niche of the businesses, here are some of them.

Creates Jobs

The most common myth about Artificial Intelligence that people have is that it is here to steal our jobs. However, this statement has no additional meaning to it. It is just a myth. That’s it. The reality, however, is that AI creates more jobs than it steals.

First of all, AI promotes automation in the business processes. Automation, in turn, needs skill sets like creating and designing the programs. At this stage, it creates the requirement of designers and mechanics that can create programs, structures and designs that make automation in the workplace possible.

Moreover, all the machinery and mechanics would require human brains to switch them on or off. No matter how many AI-based machines you install, you will require at least a few human beings to monitor and assist the machines. So far, Artificial Intelligence lacks the ability to sympathize or feel emotions. Moreover, Artificial Intelligence cannot judge or recognize human emotions. This is where AI needs human beings.

Enhances Outcome

AI increases the way an employee functions. With the advanced features, it is able to detect the moods of the employees based on their heartbeats, micro-expressions, and voice while on a call or meeting with the clients. Based on the same, it suggests the employee to continue working or take a quick little breather from the stressful situation. This not only ensures the safety of the employees’ mental health, but also assists them to be more productive.

Moreover, with AI in action, the human resource managers can have their tedious or trivial tasks managed by AI. this allows them to focus on better tasks like solving employee grievances, developing employee training structure, etc. This improves the relationship between the employer and employee as the latter feels like they are important to the organizations (which they are, of course).

Besides this, to reduce their work burden and enable efficiency, the HR managers are advised to choose factoHR's cloud-based payroll solutions, human resource management software, leave and attendance management software etc, and ease their complex work which may consume a mammoth share of their time. With such AI-based platforms at their feet, HR managers can create a better workplace for their workforce.


When the employees and the HR managers are all happy to work for the organization, their output is going to increase without a doubt.

Improves Recruiting

AI can enhance the organization's recruitment process. In these times where pandemic has made it impossible for the employer and employee to meet up for interviews or discussions, AI makes it possible for an organization to carry out the recruitment process.

Artificial Intelligence assists the organization to choose the candidate that best matches the job requirements of the vacant position. Moreover, the system stores the data about the prospective candidates and then matches them whenever a new job position arises in the market.

This way, the organization always has the best talent that is available in the labor market at that point of time.

Besides that, the AI systems, when combined with the right tools and equipment, can give you a completely virtual recruitment process. It can receive, analyze and bifurcate the applicants on the basis of their skills, knowledge and experience mentioned in their online applications. It can answer the questions or queries that the candidates may have through the AI-based chatbots. Thereby guaranteeing that the organization always has the best talent that prevails in the market.

Conclusion

The developments in Artificial Intelligence (most importantly machine learning) are rapid. Day in, day out, you can see constant evolution of these mechanics. The updates that are launched for these systems are more frequent than the sunsets and sunrise (obviously not literally, but you know what I mean). These developments are doing God’s work in changing the way that human beings look and perceive Artificial Intelligence technologies.

We, human beings, have started walking hand-in-hand with the technologies, especially ones that have their own brains. Artificial Intelligence is the tech that has no correct rules (except ethicality, but we’ll discuss about that later), it fits all the organization’s and molds itself to suit their needs.

Where we go from this point in the field of AI innovations depends on the ability of human resource technology to understand the needs of the business in the upcoming years and the feedback/ suggestions provided by human resource practitioners to their technology partners. After all, when it comes to Artificial Intelligence, technology knows no bounds.

Author Bio: 

Sweta is an experienced outreach expert having an keen interest in communication and latest trends that are useful to entrepreneurs. Her passion for learning aids team members to represent new ideas that later help businesses to achieve their mission and vision.

Hiring Outlook 2021: HR Managers Keen on Hiring AI, Data Science and Business Analyst Roles - TimesJobs survey

Work from home to be new normal in 2021 too, HR managers keen on hiring AI, Data Science and Business Analyst roles in 2021: TimesJobs survey

New Delhi, January 7, 2021: Most Indian firms (42%) would continue working remotely – most as long as one more year - as Coronavirus outbreak still looms large, found a new TimesJobs survey. The survey titled 'How do corporates envisage year 2021?' was conducted among 1,376 HR managers working in different industrial domains and startups. 

Three big findings of this survey are:

1. Most organisations (42%) to stick to remote working in 2021 too
2. Most plan to resume hiring and even roll out appraisals gradually to their workforce 
3. Work-life balance biggest concern for most corporates, toppling all other organisational mandates

Elaborating on the findings of the TimesJobs survey, Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig shared, "Year 2020 will be best remembered for ushering in 'work from home' as the 'new normal' at workplaces. It's been a year of learnings and reinvention for both the professionals and the corporates. Organisations realized that the physical presence of employees is just a psychological requirement and work can happen from anywhere. Employees realized that they need to step up in terms of skills and ownership for their job role and adopt a flexible approach to work". 

More details on the important takeaways from this survey are:

1. Most Indian firms will continue with remote work style in 2021 too:

In the TImesJobs survey, most HR managers (42%) said that their organisations will continue with remote working owing to the COVID-19 widespread. Almost 40% respondents stated that they will follow a hybrid structure – work from home (WFH) and office on alternate days. The remaining 18% said that they would completely revoke the WFH policies.

Among those who stated that they would be working from home in 2021, about 50% said this would be followed for the next one year. As many as 23% of respondents said they plan to WFH for next five years.

2. Corporate India to hire actively in 2021; preference for AI, Data Science and Business Analyst roles

The TimesJobs survey quizzed the HR professionals on how they envisaged the hiring scenario for the coming year? A majority (43%) of them said that their organisations would hire actively in 2021. The survey respondents indicated the top five job roles that they would be hiring for:

1. Artificial Intelligence

2. Data Science

3. Customer Service Specialist

4. Business Analyst

5. Financial Analyst

3. Most firms ready to 're-hire' talent laid off in COVID-19 business turmoil

The survey findings of 'How do corporates envisage year 2021?' revealed that 31% respondents will hire candidates on contractual basis next year v/s permanent roles. The survey questioned the HR professionals if they will rehire employees who were laid off in the COVID-19 pandemic. Surprisingly, 85% of them said 'yes'.

4. Indian firms keen to roll out salary hikes in 2021

The TimesJobs survey findings indicate that more than 85% HR professionals plan to hold appraisals in 2021. Out of these, a majority (43%) of the respondents said that they would roll salary hikes in the range 20%-25%. Next 13% respondents said that would offer a hike between 25%-30% to their employees. Only a marginal number of the survey respondents claimed that their organisation would roll appraisals ranging between 30%-35%.

5. Work-life balance most critical issue among all other employee issues

Employee well-being took the center stage ever since India Inc. started en-mass remote working. TimesJobs asked the respondents to rank the top three measures that will help to strengthen workforce mentally and emotionally. A majority (32%) of the respondents voted prioritisation of work-life balance at workplace. Practices such as one-on-one discussions on mental health, enabling virtual mindful workshops, were voted as the second and the third measures that companies would undertake to help their workforce.