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Employment
IEF Editorial Team
- Hiring
- December 11, 2025
EVP and Leadership Hiring: How to Win Top Talent in a C...
Employer value proposition has become the deciding factor in whether top talent chooses you or your competitors in today’s fierce labour market. Strikingly, companies that effectively deliver on their...
IEF Editorial Team
- World of Work
- January 7, 2026
The Future of AI in the Life Sciences Sector: A Strateg...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the life sciences sector, from reimagining drug discovery to reshaping clinical development, diagnostics, manufacturing and personalized medicine. The global artificial intelligence in life sciences market...
IEF Editorial Team
- Human Capital
- December 22, 2025
Transforming the Workplace: How HR Can Strengthen Acces...
Accessibility has become a core and indispensable part of HR and DEI strategy today, driven by shifting workforce expectations, rising digital adoption, and stronger global compliance frameworks to build inclusive,...
IEF Editorial Team
- Samvaad
- January 5, 2026
Global Scale, HR Transformation, and Building Resilient...
Mayank Jauhari, Director HR – Global Shared Services & CCO Office at A.P. Moller – Maersk, speaks with India Employer Forum on navigating large-scale HR transformation, integrating acquisitions across geographies,...
Employability
IEF Editorial Team
- Apprenticeship
- September 25, 2025
Apprenticeship Amendment Rules 2025: Everything You Nee...
India’s apprenticeship framework has entered a new era with the notification of the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Rules, 2025, on 11th September 2025. These reforms update the original Apprentices Act of 1961...
IEF Editorial Team
- Degree Apprenticeship
- November 15, 2024
Degree Apprenticeship Program: The Key to Solving Unemp...
India is currently facing a unique challenge: despite its vast youth population, a significant skills gap persists, affecting workforce readiness and job market alignment. As of the latest data from...
IEF Editorial Team
- Skill Development
- August 12, 2025
Stackable Credentials and the Modern Vocational Educati...
The vocational education landscape in India is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by the emergence of short-term, credential-based learning pathways that lead to meaningful employment opportunities. The traditional model of...
IEF Editorial Team
- Samvaad
- December 9, 2025
Bridging the Skill Gap
Imtiyaz Arshad, Chief General Manager, CEO & Secretary – Skill Development at HPCL explains on India Employer Forum how hands-on training, lean process excellence and participative change-management combined to close...
Ease of doing business (EODB)
IEF Editorial Team
- Compliance
- December 24, 2025
Entrepreneurship and the Burden of Regulation
Entrepreneurship is fundamentally about endurance — surviving long enough for opportunity and luck to converge. In India, this challenge was significantly intensified by policy choices in 1956, 1967, and 1976,...
IEF Editorial Team
- Technology
- October 10, 2025
From Firewalls to Frameworks: The Rise of BMIS in Corpo...
Written by Nilesh Gupta As the digital landscape evolves under the strain of increasingly sophisticated and relentless cyber threats, corporations are awakening to a stark reality: traditional, perimeter-based security is...
IEF Editorial Team
- Compliance Roundup
- December 5, 2025
Monthly Compliance Roundup November 2025
The regulatory compliance landscape in India is highly dynamic, with an average of ~42 updates per day. In 2024 alone, there were as many as 9,331 updates w.r.t compliance requirements....
IEF Editorial Team
- Samvaad
- October 13, 2025
The Evolving Compliance Landscape in India
Diwanshu Arora, speaks to the India Employer Forum about the compliance challenges in the consumer electronics industry, technology influence in compliance processes and career tips for upcoming compliance professionals... 1.What...
Initiatives
IEF Editorial Team
- Samvaad
- January 5, 2026
Global Scale, HR Transformation, and Building Resilient...
Mayank Jauhari, Director HR – Global Shared Services & CCO Office at A.P. Moller – Maersk, speaks with India Employer Forum on navigating large-scale HR transformation, integrating acquisitions across geographies,...
IEF Editorial Team
- Manthan
- July 7, 2025
AI-Ready Data Centers: Powering Future-Ready Businesses
India’s data infrastructure is radically transforming, driven by the rise of AI, GenAI, and automation. As data creation has exploded more in the last three years than in the previous...
IEF Editorial Team
- Nibandh
- December 31, 2025
The Human Edge – Why Employee Experience is Becom...
By Aakash Thakur, Founder & CEO, HRBP Global: ThinkLab & Solutions There is a silent revolution happening in organisations today, one that doesn’t start in boardrooms or strategy decks, but...