Seventeen. That’s the net number of employees India’s five largest IT services companies added between them in the first nine months of FY26. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech and Tech Mahindra have long absorbed engineering graduates by the tens of thousands, and now they’ve almost stopped growing. The same companies added 17,764 employees in the same […]
Referrals are the favourite child of almost every HR dashboard: fast, cheap and trusted. They may also be the reason your team all went to the same colleges, worked at the same companies and think the same way. The speed advantage is real. A widely cited NY Fed and MIT study of a financial services […]
Ask OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic to define AGI, and you’ll get three fundamentally different answers — and that disagreement isn’t a technicality. It’s the reason “AGI is coming” headlines mean almost nothing without asking: coming by whose definition? OpenAI’s bar is economic, not philosophical. Its charter defines AGI as a system that outperforms humans […]
Oracle cut nearly 12,000 roles in India in a single morning this year. TCS shed over 19,000 positions in one quarter. Amazon, Accenture, Flipkart, and Intel all followed with cuts of their ownIn the first four months of 2026, over 90,000 tech employees worldwide have lost their jobs, with Oracle cutting nearly 12,000 roles in […]
Your next great hire probably isn’t sitting in a Bengaluru co-working space anymore. They’re in Indore, Jaipur, or Coimbatore — and if your hiring funnel still assumes otherwise, you’re already losing candidates to companies that caught on first. The data backs this up, and it’s moving fast. Tier-2 cities are no longer overflow capacity for […]
Gut-Feel Hiring Is Costing You More Than You Think Structured interviews consistently outperform intuitive hiring — and the data is unambiguous. Organisations relying on unstructured conversations to assess candidates are making expensive, bias-prone decisions that impact retention, productivity, and team cohesion. What the Research Shows Where Gut-Feel Goes Wrong Affinity Bias Dominates Interviewers consistently rate […]
Why India’s Top Employers Are Quietly Betting Big on Fresh Talent Again The quiet return of campus hiring is one of 2026’s most significant — and underreported — talent shifts. After two years of hiring freezes and mass layoffs, leading Indian employers are returning to universities with renewed urgency, seeking to build long-term talent pipelines […]
LinkedIn has fundamentally changed how talent acquisition works. With 6 people hired through LinkedIn every minute globally and India ranking as the platform’s second-largest user base at 150+ million professionals, recruiters who ignore LinkedIn aren’t just missing candidates — they’re ceding ground to competitors who aren’t. Why LinkedIn Dominates Talent Sourcing The numbers are difficult […]
In 2026, employee benefits are no longer a perk — they are a primary hiring and retention lever. We are observing that [72%] of Indian professionals cite benefits packages as a top-three factor when evaluating job offers, often outweighing base salary increments below 15%. Why Benefits Now Matter More Than Pay The data suggests a […]
We are observing a fundamental recalibration in how fintech organizations approach talent acquisition. As the industry matures, the focus has abruptly shifted from aggressive headcount volume to deep, specialized capability. Driven by rapid advancements in embedded finance, digital lending, and stricter regulatory oversight, employers are abandoning generalist tech profiles in favor of high-precision, hybrid specialists. […]