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Futuristic organizations prefer to have a robust team that embraces diverse mindsets and identities, including that of gender, sexual orientation, and physical capabilities. Corporate leaders and HR professionals in these organizations, are on a mission to make their work culture inclusive of diversity talent, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ being a key priority. India Inc. had […]

Caring for mothers. How India Inc. shows the way Companies embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have accommodated goals that specifically look at retaining women in the motherhood stage. In the last five years, the Best Companies for Women India (BCWI), a gender analytics exercise, conducted by Avtar in association with the US-based Working Mother,

It has been a dramatically eventful year – a global pandemic called COVID-19, operational new in almost all lines of businesses and a universal acceptance of a niche format of flexible work called remote work. Closer observations on some of India’s most successful organizations reveal that there is indeed a ball that they refrained from

Psychological safety at the workplace refers to the experience of employees being able to authentically express themselves in their work environments. This stems from a strong foundation built on trust that an employee has on his/her/their employer and the subsequent sense of reassurance that they have they would not be punished or would not have

Amid the Covid-19 crisis, working from home has become a norm for many. But even as remote work has normalised, it’s a fairly recent development.  Work from home was less mainstream before the pandemic and even stigmatised.  Hence, most organizations are still exploring the various nuances of remote working.  As part of the post-covid era,

While the pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works for many businesses, it has turned out to be a catalyst for interventions in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) space. Covid-19 has unveiled the potential to accelerate the pace of DEI with an increase in efforts headed by compassionate and decisive leadership, looking at

Dr Nandini Murali defied stereotypes when she scripted an alternative narrative for herself dealing with suicidal loss. Her partner died by suicide when Dr Nandini’s internal GPS crashed. She resurrected herself and she authored a book titled “Life Behind: Surviving Suicide Loss” in which she expresses herself on how the Pain acted as a catalyst