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Tony Boyce wins the prestigious M. Scott Myers Award

31 Oct 2017  by   Aon Avenue

Aon’s excited to announce that our very own Tony Boyce won the prestigious M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace at the SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) 2016 conference!

Who really gains from the proposed increase in tax-free gratuity limit to Rs 20 lakh?

25 Oct 2017  by   ET Online

The government has proposed to hike the tax free gratuity payment limit from the current Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh - on 12 September 2017, the Cabinet cleared The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2017. However, before you rejoice, do you know if this will actually benefit you monetarily?

People Matters and Aon Hewitt to create an online learning academy

11 Oct 2017  by   People Matters

People Matters and Aon Hewitt announced that they are coming together to create an Online Learning Academy, which would focus on HR capability building, at the People Matters L&D League Annual Conference 2017.

Articulating a 'New Normal' for Jobs

11 Oct 2017  by   Sandeep Chaudhary

Did you read the World Economic Forum report? It says that there will be a loss of around 7.1 million jobs by 2020, and a majority of it will be white-collar jobs.

NBFCs, new lenders attracting bank talent with fat packages

27 Sep 2017  by   Financial Express

At a time when banks are saddled with growing NPAs and managing regulations, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and newer, nimbler banks seem to be gnawing at traditional banking talent.

Pay hikes set to go up marginally in 2018

15 Sep 2017  by   ET Bureau

After hitting an eight-year low in 2017, salary hikes are likely to be on their way up in 2018.

Let's be honest: Why Sarahah is every Leader's business

13 Sep 2017  by   Ajith Nair

Sarahah could become the ultimate 360 tool for CXOs, offering them organization wide feedback without fear or favour.

Discount Rate Movement in Q2 2017 and impact on Employee Benefit Liabilities

18 Jul 2017  by   Chitra Jayasimha

The 10-Year zero coupon Government bond yields have fallen by 22 bps since March 2017 and by 54 bps since March 2016. We are seeing somewhat stable bond yields across all tenures since demonetization where we saw a large dip in the government bond yields falling up to 149 bps during that period. The discount rates have been very volatile during the last 4 quarters. Due to demonetization the zero coupon bonds saw decrease in yields during Sep 16 to Dec 16 followed by increase in the next Quarter ending March 2017.

Starting up in India? Get your people strategy right

15 May 2017  by   Sankalp Mohanty

In the course of our work in India, we partner with startups across the maturity spectrum on a range of issues. The business challenges they describe focus on three key elements- monetisation of the business model, expansion of the customer base and securing the next round of funding.

#ImagineeringTomorrow: Critical re-thinking about the future of work is necessary. Here's why

27 Apr 2017  by   Sandeep Chaudhary

The objective of this article and our Imagineering workshop is to help stimulate a discussion about how to open up the future more for the unknown and unexplored.