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Hear how your workplace is changing. Before you hear it on Slack. In this new weekly podcast, get answers to the biggest questions about how modern Indian workplaces are changing, often even before they become popular questions to ask. Sneha Vakharia, Shreevar Chhotaria, and Akshaya…
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E28 · 27 Feb 2023 · 34 min
IT Employees Are Finally Unionising. But There's A Problem.
Gone are the days when unions were something that only caught the fancy of the blue collar workforce. After a slew of unending layoffs, white collar employees in the IT sector are finally waking up to the bells of unionisation. But it’s not without a myriad of unobvious roadblocks. The path to collective bargaining wasn’t easy. But no one knew it would be this hard. In this episode, I speak to Sreyan Chatterjee (Lawyer/Researcher; Ex-Reuters), Harpreet Singh Saluja (Founding Member, Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate) and Suman Dasmahapatra (National Convenor, All India IT &…
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E27 · 20 Feb 2023 · 31 min
Moonlighting, not for money, but to upskill.
There’s a specific idea we have about moonlighting: a trend that emerged in the pandemic. Engineers tasked with sitting at home and delivering their product saw that their skills were so valuable, that it was possible to extract more money out of them by working in two places at once. So a person would either consult with multiple organizations on the side, or work in more businesses than one, using the skills they had already, to extract more income out of it. But this episode, what we’re talking about is entirely different. This is moonlighting not to extract more money for the skills you…
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E26 · 13 Feb 2023 · 19 min
The Golden Era of 'Work From Anywhere' Is Over
What was once touted as the biggest work trend to emerge from the pandemic, is on its way out. Companies are slowly but surely realising that the 'work from anywhere' model isn't sustainable in the long run. Or even in the short run, in some cases. Meesho, for one, had announced an extravagant WFA policy in February 2022. They scrapped it only a few months later. But it's not just the employers who're putting the final nail in the coffin. It's the employees too. In this episode, I speak to Joel D'Souza , (Program Manager- Culture and Talent at Headout), Aditi Agrawal (Management Consultant…
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E25 · 6 Feb 2023 · 30 min
Bombay is running out of talent.
Earlier this month, Cost to Company received a striking message from a Ken subscriber called Uzma Rushdi. She wrote, “Mumbai is suffering from a lack of new talent inflow. Unless there are dramatic changes it will be Calcutta in 20 years :(” Around the same time another thing happened. A group of 35 startups in Mumbai created something called TEAM (Technology Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai), with the the pointed goal to reinvigorate Brand Mumbai. But what happened to Brand Mumbai that it needs reinvigorating? This then became our hypothesis for this episode of Cost to Company. Is Mumbai…
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E24 · 30 Jan 2023 · 31 min
How Are Companies Jumping The Invisible Gap Between Offer Acceptance and Joining Dates?
Ghosting exists. But so do the ghostbusters.
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E22 · 16 Jan 2023 · 24 min
What This Year’s Appraisal Season Is Trying To Tell You
One person’s hike is another one’s imminent layoff
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E21 · 9 Jan 2023 · 28 min
A career in delivery tech is a ticket out of India
The pioneering years of building logistics tech services in India are behind us. But the rest of the world awaits.
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E20 · 2 Jan 2023 · 27 min
The Biggest Hiring Trend in 2023? Skill-Shifting.
Hiring is changing. In more ways than you think.
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E19 · 19 Dec 2022 · 29 min
Your HR is being eaten by software
Automate all the things HR does, and what are we left with? And what have we lost?
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