Software Engineer

Resources from a high level perspective 
 Humans from a low level perspective

Product Manager

They’re resources which happen to be human. 🥁

Employees are friends and humans and must be valued for their individuality and contributions. The day you leap towards the thought of resource  you’ll see dumb mass layoffs recently

I remember once my manager saying that he does not like calling subordinates as resources. So it depends on person to person. 
  
 Even I do not feel good about using that word.

Data scientist

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Are employees humans or are they “resources”?

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It is very insulting in my view. Thoughts?

Why is terming human employees as “resources” by corporate honchos not the same as objectification of human beings?

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Do you think HR roles have become a little toxic at the workplace in India. If you consider the HR policies and work culture abroad they are more employee centric. It's somewhere in the DNA of the HRs, I believe. Is the process of becoming an HR makes you like this or is it the work culture? I'm making this comment in general, some MNCs might be exceptions.

Why are HR not actually Human Resources in India?

Zonal Head

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Growth Manager

So, my company just started publishing salary ranges for all positions internally. It's been... interesting, to say the least. 

Some people are thrilled about the transparency, while others are pretty upset about what they've learned. It's definitely changed the vibe around the office. Has anyone else experienced this kind of wage transparency? 

I'm really curious how it affects team dynamics and motivation in the long run.

How do you feel about a fully transparent salary system?

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Hello all! 
I am working as HR Head in a growth stage startup in Bangalore. So many people here talk about compensation, culture, growth etc. Happy to answer questions related to HR/Culture/Startups.

People & Culture manager

What's up with the HR-Tech folks? 
Anything cooking in this industry

Recruitment is a 200 yr+ old industry
- Why are only a few B2B startups in this space? (Zoho, GreytHR.. 
- Can this industry get rid of Agencies?
- What USP can help in this space?

Anyone who can help get insights?

Is Recruitment-Tech dead?

Founder

From the last few days there were talks going on about layoffs in Morgan Stanley. Some 7% of the global staff will be handed over the pink slip in this week. 
Well... It started happening from today ... Few colleagues from my department were laid, and the reason being "company is trying to survive in the market, company is planning the road ahead by taking such bold steps".
When this was announced, my anxiety shot up the next level and I couldn't wait for the meeting to finish.
The past few years have not been great for the business worldwide due to which many companies are forced to take such steps. These companies just have been doing a hiring spree from the last 1-2 years that now they are regretting their decisions and letting off their employees.
My question is - "If a company hires excessively during the bull market and is forced to lay off few of the employees during the downturn, has the company made an error by not evaluating the headcount or it was just simply the need of the hour" 
 
Please note - I know many people out there who have faced job cuts due to many factors, sincerely requesting people to take this matter very seriously

Layoffs - A complete mess made by the companies

Analyst

Have seen many lazy ass HR's who don't even bother to listen employees problem why don't they support much?

Why are HR's so ignorant and bitchy

Standard stupid Indian HRs. Asking to share screen and resign. If you don't resign threatening to withhold the experience letter etc. 

Yaay to our labour laws!!

Persistent Systems forcing employees to resign

DevOps Engineering

Do you have the same opinion ? 

My take on this:

1) They are management mouthpiece, no opinion of their own and cannot help in case an employee arises a concern.
2) They don’t reply to email or teams chat unless I add their manager in cc.
3) They dont have any answers to our question and instead ask us to talk to our reporting manager.
4) Recruiters are not HR.

Do companies need HR?

Software architect

I don’t understand things about service based companies. They train their employees on certain tech stack and put them into a project writing test cases (Functional and E2E test cases).
Why don’t they just hire someone with testing as a requirement! Are they exploiting their employees.

Correct me!

Am I the asshole?

After a few months clear to me an employee was taking company for a ride. Average a few days a week in the office, otherwise sick/on errands, delivered no work. CTC 55L.

Before I could fire her, she announced she was taking Maternity leave a few months into the job. Well crap guess I need to pay her for 6 more months more because of laws I don't understand. Rip my bank account.

She returns, same issues. I put her on a pip & she resigned telling me I'm sexist and it will be hard to find a new job now. I say sorry, performance was bad, she can do pip and stay if things are better. She askes for 2 months salary and i agree.

A lawyer calls telling me I need to pay more or they will file a case. Said I discriminated to her, and it's not legal.

I think this person is a bully/psycho/self entitled. But am I the asshole?

AITAH? Fired a lady after maternity.

Investor

Do you think TCS should increase hike % to minimum 7%?

Operations Manager

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Are there regulations in place to ensure that employees at these IT companies are treated fairly?

Employee

Tech lead

This is truly truly heartbreaking to hear.

McKinsey consultant commits suicide due to work pressure :(

Corporate Strategist

~RANT~ Recently, everyone might have heard name of ExxonMobil floating around for making Insane profits of ~$56 Billion in 2022, which almost parallel profits realized by Apple. One must imagine employees floating in Bonuses or gifts or whatever, for helping the company achieve this. And what we get is a food card loaded with INR 2500 that can be used on Zomato/Swiggy. The sheer audacity to give all employees this voucher with a mail stating (idr exact words, but it was similar) "A token of appreciation for all the dedication, hardwork and perseverance of our employees". Houston Office receives good bonuses, and India office has no system of bonus for employees. Salary increase that barely beats inflation and that too different for all employees based on a shitty employee evaluation system. All this after they mention Employees are thier biggest foremost and most important resources. Also, they claim they operate with Highest ethical standards. LOL. This is how you treat your best resources? By giving this 2.5k coupon, it would have been better if they had not given us anything than reducing the value we create for the company to these stupid cards. ~RANT over~

Audacity of ExxonMobil to give vouchers after making record profits

Guys, one of my friend is going through interviews for a late stage ecom startup. and surprisingly the hiring manager who took the one of the rounds comes to him on a call post the last round. 

bit weird from my pov since he told HR was involved at every step for scheduling interviews but now for the negotiation part directly HM has called.

Any thoughts on this? acc to me this tells a lot about the culture of the company as HRs are given less importance, HM holds more power which they can abuse to their terms. what you all viners think about this?

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