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Siddharth Grease & Lubes appoints Nitesh Madan as new CHRO

by Catalina Sepulveda

Earlier in his career, he deployed SAP SuccessFactors at Ericsson India and oversaw recruitment and performance management at Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India. Nitesh Madan has been named chief human resources officer (CHRO) at Siddharth Grease & Lubes, where he will direct the company’s workforce strategy and HR modernization. His responsibilities include enhancing organizational effectiveness, developing leadership pipelines, and supporting a results-oriented culture while embedding digital tools into HR workflows.…

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A diverse team of professionals discussing projects in a plant-filled office setting. Photo: Antoni Shkraba/Pexels Nandini Matiyani, group chief human resources officer at Strides, did not initially plan a career in HR. She started in sales, progressing steadily until the birth of her first child prompted a career reassessment. She moved into a non-sales role as her organization began a Six Sigma quality initiative. Matiyani earned her Six Sigma Black…

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India’s female workforce doubles, job quality lags

by Emilia Reyes

The female worker population ratio rose from 22% in 2017-18 to 38% in 2025. Between 2017-18 and 2025, India’s working women population surged to 201 million from 104 million, marking an almost twofold rise. Yet, this expansion has failed to deliver more stable, higher-paying positions for women, according to research by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Instead, growth has centered on agriculture, self-employment, and unpaid…

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India adopts single time standard nationwide

India adopts single time standard nationwide with Indian Standard Time mandatory from...

Emilia Reyes • Sep 15, 2026 • Interview Playbook

India adopts single time standard nationwide

I ndian Standard Time becomes mandatory in 2027 for official activities. The Government of India has announced that Indian Standard Time (IST) will become the mandatory reference for all official, commercial, administrative, and digital activities beginning in 2027. This...

initiative, branded as “One Nation, One Time”, is expected to reshape how organisations, employers, and digital platforms manage records, transactions, and workforce operations. The notification, issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, introduces the Legal Metrology...

HR Teams Shift Focus to Drive Business Growth

HR teams are transforming into strategic partners, aligning talent strategy with business...

Millaray Vargas • Sep 11, 2026 • Salary Insights

HR Teams Shift Focus to Drive Business Growth

H R professionals are increasingly focusing on aligning talent strategy with organizational objectives to drive growth. Human Resources is evolving from a support function to a key business driver. The focus has shifted from managing people-related processes to aligning...

talent strategy with business growth. This transformation is driven by the recognition that HR’s role must extend beyond traditional responsibilities like recruitment, engagement, and compliance to actively contribute to organizational success. By integrating people strategy with business objectives, HR becomes...

George Stern warns of growing workplace trust gap

Former McKinsey consultant George Stern reveals a widening trust gap between leaders...

Millaray Vargas • Sep 8, 2026 • Interview Playbook

George Stern warns of growing workplace trust gap

G eorge Stern’s platform logs up to 20 anonymous employee submissions daily, exposing conflicts between company policies and management decisions. George Stern, a former McKinsey consultant who now analyzes workplace culture, tracks a growing divide between corporate leadership and...

their staff. His platform, which gathers anonymous employee accounts, now logs up to 20 daily submissions—many detailing management decisions that clash with stated company guidelines. A widely shared post described an employee denied bereavement leave for attending a grandmother’s funeral....

New Rules for Right-to-Work Checks

New government rules allow British and Irish workers to use passports expired...

Millaray Vargas • Sep 4, 2026 • Workplace Trends

New Rules for Right-to-Work Checks

N ew Rules for Right-to-Work Checks Employers using digital right-to-work checks will be able to verify British and Irish workers using passports that expired up to six months earlier under new government rules published this week. The government published...

updated standards for digital right-to-work verification on 1 September. The revised code replaces one issued in June that never came into force. Allowing recently expired passports Under the new code, a digital identity can be created using a British passport,...