The Shape of Work

Same resume, two rejections. startup and MNC both said no

Sadia Vali — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hellooo {{First Name| there}},

You're an HR professional. You know resumes. You've screened hundreds of them.

And yet your own resume is getting rejected by startups and MNCs alike. 😅

Here's the thing — what a startup wants to see and what an MNC expects are two completely different things. Same role, same title, totally different language. Here's how to decode both.

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🎯 5 Things HR Pros Need to Know About Startup vs. MNC Resumes

🚀 Startups want builders, MNCs want operators

Startups want to know what you built from scratch. MNCs want to see how well you operated within structure. Same experience, two completely different framings.

📋 Keywords are different universes

MNC JDs say "HR business partnering" and "change management." Startup JDs say "0 to 1," "scrappy," and "wear multiple hats." Mirror the language of the role. Your ATS knowledge should be working for you here.

📊 Numbers land differently

For MNCs, scale matters. "Supported 3,000 employees across 5 locations" signals complexity. For startups, speed matters. "Reduced time to hire from 45 to 18 days" is what gets you a callback.

🤝 Culture fit signals are completely different

MNCs want stability and structured career progression. Startups want adaptability and ownership. The same 2-year stint at three companies reads very differently depending on who's looking.

🤖 AI skills read differently too

At an MNC, frame it as "process improvement." At a startup, say it plainly. "I run our entire TA function with a team of two using AI." Same skill, different story.

📊 Job alerts from TSOW

🏢 Name of the Company: Freight Tiger
🎩 Job title: Assistant Manager /Manager- HR
🌍️ Location: Bengaluru
📝 Brief description of the role: Blue collar hiring

Link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Cidroy Infotech Pvt. Ltd
🎩 Job title: Technical Recruiter
🌍️ Location: Goa
📝 Brief description of the role: End-to-end hiring for technical and non-technical roles.

link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Yuma Energy
🎩 Job title: HR Intern – Talent Acquisition
🌍️ Location: Bengaluru
📝 Brief description of the role: Talent Acquisition Department and will help with sourcing, Scheduling, and Onboarding candidates.

Link to apply

🔥 The HR conversation you've been missing is happening in your city

Every month, HR professionals walk out of TSOW Meetups with one thing in common. They wish they'd come sooner.

No keynotes. No corporate panels. Just the kind of raw, honest conversations that actually change how you work.

Limited seats. Which city is yours?

June 🗓️

📍 Noida — June 13 📍 Jaipur — June 20 📍 Vadodara — June 20

July 🗓️

📍 Hyderabad — July 4 📍 Chennai — July 4 📍 Ahmedabad — July 11 📍 Gurugram — July 11 📍 Bangalore — July 18 📍 Chandigarh — July 25 📍 Indore — July 25

The people in that room will be talking about it for weeks. Don't be the one who missed it. 👆

Your experience doesn't change depending on where you apply. But the story you tell about it absolutely should. Startups and MNCs are not just different companies they're different audiences looking for completely different things.

The HR pros who crack this aren't the ones with the best experience. They're the ones who know how to frame it. 🎯

See you again soon 🐾 — The TSOW Team

Your employees are stressed about money. Here's how to fix it 💸

Sadia Vali — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hey {{First Name | there}},

TOOLiee here, and this week we're talking about something HR teams rarely bring up but employees think about every single day: money.

Not pay raises. Not bonuses. Just the basic financial security of knowing that if something unexpected hits before payday, there's a way through it. We found three tools making that possible — and making HR look good in the process.

👇 Scroll below for TOOLiee's Pick of the day tools we think are actually worth your time.

🧠 Here's a TOOLiee Fun Fact!

❝ 78% of Indian employees live paycheck to paycheck. Financial stress is the number one cause of distraction at work — and it costs organisations far more in lost productivity than the benefit of fixing it ever would.

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💡 Knowledge Bytes

📌 A salary advance request landing in HR's inbox is a system failure, not an employee problem — when people have to ask for money they've already earned, the process is broken. Structured earned wage access removes the awkwardness and the admin in one move.

📌 Benefits that employees can't see or feel don't retain anyone — meal cards, fuel allowances, and wellness perks only work when they're visible, easy to use, and genuinely valued. A benefit buried in the offer letter isn't a benefit.

📌 Financial stress doesn't stay at the door when employees clock in — distracted, financially stressed employees have higher absenteeism, lower output, and leave faster. Financial wellness isn't a perk — it's a productivity and retention strategy.

1️⃣ Pluxee

Pluxee A digital employee benefits platform — offering meal cards, fuel benefits, gift vouchers, and wellness programs across 5 million+ RuPay-enabled merchants nationwide.

Why HRs love Pluxee

📌 Tax-efficient benefits employees actually use — meal, fuel, and wellness allowances structured to maximise savings for employer and employee both.
📌 5 million+ merchant network across India — employees redeem benefits at an enormous range of outlets, making the card useful in daily life.
📌 Digital onboarding and activation in hours — no lengthy setup, HR gets the platform live fast with minimal overhead.
📌 Fully configurable to your HR policy — benefit structures customised to your organisation's goals from day one.

2️⃣ Refyne

A financial wellness suite giving employees instant access to earned wages before payday — alongside savings, insurance, and financial literacy tools.

Why HRs love Refyne

📌 Salary On-Demand live in as little as 24 hours — earned wages accessed instantly via app, with deductions reflected automatically in your HRM system.
📌 Zero cost, zero liability for the employer — no payroll changes, no working capital impact, no setup costs.
📌 Full wellness suite, not just a salary advance — financial coaching, pocket insurance, and savings tools built in for long-term employee resilience.
📌 SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPDP, and RBI compliant — bank-grade security across the entire platform.

3️⃣ Jify

An earned wage access platform cutting attrition by 56%+ — letting employees access earned salary anytime with zero payroll disruption and zero cost to HR.

Why HRs love Jify

📌 Live in 1 to 3 days, plug-and-play with your HRMS — integrates with existing systems or runs offline, onboarding handled entirely by Jify.
📌 Kills the ad-hoc salary advance request — replaces individual approvals with a transparent, policy-driven system for every employee.
📌 1-on-1 coaching with SEBI-registered advisors — credit score tracking, savings tools, and personalised financial guidance included.
📌 ISO 27001 and CISA certified — real-time fund transfers with highest-grade data security built in.

The GTM bets that shouldn't have worked, and did

One grew revenue 50x after half his team quit over the strategy. One brought in 50K signups in a single day with no paid budget. One generated 100M+ views from a stunt that took 50 hours to conceive. One asked every prospect to demo the product themselves instead of demoing it for them.

None of them followed the safe playbook. They treated GTM like an experiment, moved before they had proof, and made bets most founders would never get approved.

HubSpot for Startups documented all 6 stories in the free Bold Bets Playbook. The risks they took, why it was risky, and what it returned.

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📍TSOW HR Meetups Coming to Your City

No slides, no jargon — just real conversations with HR peers who get it. Practical frameworks, honest case studies, and meaningful connections over coffee

June

TSOW Meetup Noida June 13 | Step away from the inbox and into real conversations — leave with ideas you can use on Monday morning. Limited seats →

TSOW Meetup Jaipur June 20 | Real conversations with HR peers who get it — practical takeaways you can act on right away. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Vadodara June 20 | Candid peer discussions and fresh perspectives for HR leaders who want clarity, not just conversation. Register now →

July

TSOW Meetup Hyderabad July 4 | Forward-thinking HR leaders, honest conversations, and ideas you can act on immediately. Don't miss out →

TSOW Meetup Chennai July 4 | Candid peer discussions and practical insights for HR leaders who want clarity, not just conversation. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Ahmedabad July 11 | An intimate evening of conversation, perspective-sharing, and connections that actually matter. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Gurugram July 11 | Real challenges, real solutions, real connections walk in with questions, walk out with clarity. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Bangalore July 18 | Meaningful conversations with HR peers over coffee, Share challenges, walk away with fresh perspectives. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Chandigarh July 25 | Shared stories, practical frameworks, and insights you can take back to your team right away. Limited seats →

TSOW Meetup Indore July 25 | Step away from the inbox and into real conversations leave with ideas you can use on Monday morning. Grab your spot →

Until next Wednesday — TSOW 🛠️

Your benefits package is embarrassing and you know it

Sadia Vali — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

What’s on the agenda today?

Hey {{First Name| there}},

When did you last check if your benefits actually stack up against the market? If the answer is "last year" or "not sure”. This one's for you.

Most HR teams know what they offer. Fewer know how it stacks up. And in 2026, that gap is starting to cost companies in talent, retention, and trust.

Benefits benchmarking used to be a once-a-year exercise buried in a spreadsheet. Not anymore.

The GTM bets that shouldn't have worked, and did

None of them followed the safe playbook. They treated GTM like an experiment, moved before they had proof, and made bets most founders would never get approved.

HubSpot for Startups documented all 6 stories in the free Bold Bets Playbook. The risks they took, why it was risky, and what it returned.

Read the free Bold Bets Playbook

In This Edition We Cover

What benefits benchmarking actually is
What a solid package looks like in 2026
What's trending globally and in India
What to do about it this quarter

1️⃣ So... What Even Is Benefits Benchmarking?

Simply put, it's comparing what you offer against what the market offers. And then asking yourself why the gap exists.

As GeeksforGeeks explains, benchmarking helps organisations spot where they're behind — and adopt what's actually working elsewhere. For benefits, that means answering:

Are we offering what talent actually expects?
Are employees using what we're paying for?
Are we spending in the right places?

Here's the uncomfortable truth: Pluxee India's 2026 research found a growing mismatch between what employers think they're offering and what employees actually want.

Benefits have moved from cost centre to strategic growth lever — and companies still treating them as a checkbox are already behind.

2️⃣ What Should a Complete Package Actually Cover?

Spoiler: it's more than health insurance and PF.

🏥 Group health insurance, OPD, mental health support
💰 PF, gratuity, financial wellness tools
👶 Parental leave, childcare, reproductive health
📚 Learning budgets, upskilling support
🏠 Flexible and remote work policies
🎖️ Recognition, spot bonuses, peer rewards
🛡️ Term life, accident and disability cover

The shift: employees don't evaluate these as individual perks anymore. They read the whole package as a signal — does this company actually value me?

3️⃣ What's Trending in 2026?

Globally : Goldman Sachs Ayco's Navigating the New Frontier of Total Rewards showed benefits getting more complex, more personal, and harder to manage cheaply:

💊 54% of employers now cover GLP-1 weight-loss treatments — but 64% say cost is the top barrier
👨‍👩‍👧 95% offer parental leave to birthing, non-birthing, and adopting parents
🏥 48% have moved to specialist suite providers for family-building and reproductive health — because generic healthcare bundles aren't cutting it anymore

In India : per Onsurity and Eminent Consultants' 2026 HR Guide:

🎯 Flexible benefits wallets are in — one-size-fits-all is out
🧠 Mental health support is now table stakes, not a differentiator
🏙️ Tier-2 city benchmarking is non-negotiable as hiring moves beyond metros
📈 Salary hikes averaging 9% in 2026 — but tied to skills and performance, not across-the-board increases

And as Economic Times puts it — the workplace contract in India is being rewritten. Employees expect benefits to reflect company values. Not just company budgets.

4️⃣ What Should HR Actually Do This Quarter?

Start here 👇

📋 Benchmark now — compare your package against industry and city peers, not national averages
📊 Check utilisation data — if no one's using a benefit, that's not success. That's feedback
💬 Ask your employees — what do they want, not what you assume they need
🏛️ Factor in the Labour Codes — the 50% Wage Rule has changed your PF and gratuity baseline, which changes your total rewards math
📣 Communicate what you offer — per D&B's benchmarking guide, a benefit no one knows about is a benefit that doesn't exist

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🎉 What’s Coming Up!

TSOW HR Meetup in Noida | June 13
Connect, learn, and grow with Noida HR community. Don’t miss your chance to be in the room!
TSOW HR Meetup in Jaipur | June 20
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TSOW HR Meetup in Vadodara | June 20
An HR meetup for meaningful dialogue and shared learning.
Get your seat while spots last.

💬 When did your organisation last benchmark its benefits? Drop it in #general-q&a — our leaders are ready to answer.

The TSOW HR Pulse lands every Tuesday. Got something to share? You know where to find us.

You know how hiring works. so why are you job hunting like you don't? 💀

Sadia Vali — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hellooo {{First Name| there}},

Here's the uncomfortable truth.

You spend your days building hiring processes, writing job descriptions, and screening candidates. You know exactly how ATS works, what hiring managers actually want, and what makes a resume get binned in 6 seconds.

And yet when it's your turn to job hunt, you're doing the same thing everyone else does. Sending 50 applications into the void and wondering why nobody's calling back. 😅

June 2026 is the moment to use what you already know. Here's how.

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🎯 5 Job Hunting Tips for HR Professionals Who Know Better

🤖 Beat the ATS you built it, you know how it works

Mirror the exact keywords from the job description. Keep formatting clean. No tables, graphics, or fancy fonts. You've seen what gets rejected. Don't let it be yours.

🤝 Stop applying, start connecting

Identify 10 to 15 companies you genuinely want to work at, find the hiring manager or CHRO on LinkedIn, and reach out with context. A warm conversation beats a cold application every time.

🧠 Make your AI skills impossible to ignore

Don't say "familiar with AI tools." Show the outcome. "Reduced time to hire by 30% using AI screening" is a line that gets you in the room. Specificity wins.

📋 Treat your resume like a job description

Every bullet point should answer one question: so what? Generic responsibilities don't move anyone. Results do.

🏠 Use your HR network like an insider

Most HR roles are filled before they're even posted. Let people know you're open, be specific about what you're looking for, and ask for introductions not just referrals.

📊 Job alerts from TSOW

🏢 Name of the Company: Yuma Energy
🎩 Job title: HR Intern – Talent Acquisition
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: Talent Acquisition

Link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Amura Health
🎩 Job title: Talent Acquisition Specialists
🌍️ Location: Chennai
📝 Brief description of the role: End-to-end hiring for first-in-function

link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Cox and Kings
🎩 Job title: Recruiter
🌍️ Location: Delhi
📝 Brief description of the role: End-to-end recruitment at a travel company

Link to apply

🔥 The HR conversation you've been missing is happening in your city

Every month, HR professionals walk out of TSOW Meetups with one thing in common. They wish they'd come sooner.

No keynotes. No corporate panels. Just the kind of raw, honest conversations that actually change how you work.

Limited seats. Which city is yours?

June 🗓️

📍 Pune — June 6 📍 Surat — June 6 📍 Noida — June 13 📍 Jaipur — June 20 📍 Vadodara — June 20

July 🗓️

📍 Hyderabad — July 4 📍 Chennai — July 4 📍 Ahmedabad — July 11 📍 Gurugram — July 11 📍 Bangalore — July 18 📍 Chandigarh — July 25 📍 Indore — July 25

The people in that room will be talking about it for weeks. Don't be the one who missed it. 👆

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Your competitors already automated this

Sadia Vali — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hey {{First Name | there}},

TOOLiee here, and this week we went looking for the tools quietly handling three of HR's most overlooked gaps: running payroll without the panic, managing performance without the paperwork, and making recognition something people actually do every day.

Three tools. All worth your time.

👇 Scroll below for TOOLiee's Pick of the Day — tools we think are actually worth your time.

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💡 Knowledge Bytes

📌 One-click payroll isn't a luxury — it's a standard — if your payroll still takes days of manual calculations and compliance checks, the tools have moved on without you.

📌 Performance data that lives in silos helps no one — when appraisals, increments, and goals aren't connected, decisions get made on gut feel, not facts.

📌 Recognition that requires effort gets skipped — if appreciating a colleague means logging into a separate platform, most people won't bother. The best tools meet people where they already are.

1️⃣ Asanify

AI-powered global HRMS and EOR platform — automating payroll, compliance, and HR across India and 200+ countries in one click.

Why HRs love Asanify

📌 One-click payroll, full statutory compliance — auto-calculates PF, ESI, TDS, PT, and delivers payslips via WhatsApp and Slack instantly.
📌 Global EOR without a local entity — hire across 200+ countries with Asanify handling full legal employer responsibility.
📌 Compliance auto-updates, zero manual tracking — stays synced with India's evolving labour laws so nothing slips through.
📌 Self-service on mobile, Slack, and WhatsApp — employees access payslips and submit leaves without ever raising a ticket.

2️⃣ HR Neeti

Cloud-native HCM built on a decade of HR consulting — managing the full employee lifecycle with AI, ML, and RPA across payroll, performance, and people analytics.

Why HRs love HR Neeti

📌 Performance management at the core — PMS, appraisals, increments, and incentives built in with real-time data synced across the org hierarchy.
📌 One live source of truth across the organisation — synchronized data across all modules eliminates duplication and disconnected HR systems.
📌 AI, ML, and RPA with near-zero customisation — intelligent automation handles repetitive workflows out of the box from day one.
📌 Full ATS to payroll in one platform — recruitment, time tracking, payroll, and people analytics in a single cloud and mobile system.

3️⃣ EngageWith by Springworks

Recognition and engagement platform living entirely inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, Kudos, pulse surveys, eNPS, and milestone celebrations without leaving the tools your team already uses.

Why HRs love EngageWith

📌 Recognition in under 60 seconds — one @mention inside Slack or Teams and the appreciation is done, no new platform needed.
📌 90%+ pulse survey response rates — surveys land where people already work, making feedback actually representative.
📌 eNPS setup in under 5 minutes — identify promoters and detractors fast, before disengagement becomes attrition.
📌 Rewards across 100+ platforms in 50+ countries — employees redeem points for things they actually want, making recognition stick.

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📍TSOW HR Meetups Coming to Your City

No slides, no jargon — just real conversations with HR peers who get it. Practical frameworks, honest case studies, and meaningful connections over coffee

June

TSOW Meetup Pune June 6 | Shared stories, practical frameworks, and insights you can take back to your team right away. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Surat June 6 | Peer-led conversations and fresh perspectives for HR leaders who want takeaways, not theory. Grab your spot →

TSOW Meetup Noida June 13 | Step away from the inbox and into real conversations — leave with ideas you can use on Monday morning. Limited seats →

TSOW Meetup Jaipur June 20 | Real conversations with HR peers who get it — practical takeaways you can act on right away. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Vadodara June 20 | Candid peer discussions and fresh perspectives for HR leaders who want clarity, not just conversation. Register now →

July

TSOW Meetup Hyderabad July 4 | Forward-thinking HR leaders, honest conversations, and ideas you can act on immediately. Don't miss out →

TSOW Meetup Chennai July 4 | Candid peer discussions and practical insights for HR leaders who want clarity, not just conversation. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Ahmedabad July 11 | An intimate evening of conversation, perspective-sharing, and connections that actually matter. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Gurugram July 11 | Real challenges, real solutions, real connections walk in with questions, walk out with clarity. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Bangalore July 18 | Meaningful conversations with HR peers over coffee, Share challenges, walk away with fresh perspectives. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Chandigarh July 25 | Shared stories, practical frameworks, and insights you can take back to your team right away. Limited seats →

TSOW Meetup Indore July 25 | Step away from the inbox and into real conversations leave with ideas you can use on Monday morning. Grab your spot →

Until next Wednesday — TSOW 🛠️

May in Review

Sadia Vali — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:53:10 +0000

What’s on the agenda today?

Hey {{First Name| there}},

Mental health data got uncomfortable. Labour Code pressure got real. And the global layoff wave hit closer to home. Here's what mattered in May.

In This Edition We Cover

Mental health: why awareness isn't enough anymore
Labour Codes: what's in force right now
The layoff wave : what it means for HR in India
What June looks like for HR teams

1️⃣ Mental Health: The Gap Is Psychological Safety

Infosys partnered with NIMHANS to certify their entire HR team in India as Mental Health First Aiders — making mental health a shared organisational responsibility, not just an HR programme. It's a model worth paying attention to.

Because the data from ekincare's From Silence to Signal report (May 2026) tells us most organisations are nowhere near there yet:

26.6% of employees who book a counselling session never show up
58% attend only one session and never return
Nearly 75% hesitate to take mental health leave fearing they'll seem incapable
Gen Z (aged 20–25) recorded a 203% growth in counselling utilisation — they're normalising therapy at work far faster than any other age group.

2️⃣ Labour Codes: No More Waiting

The Four Codes have been legally in force since November 2025. April 1 was the enforcement deadline. There's no waiting it out. Per ipleaders and Sansa Legal:

💸 50% Wage Rule — Basic + DA must be at least 50% of CTC, pushing employer costs up 5–15%
📉 Employees in allowance-heavy structures may see a 2–5% take-home reduction
⏱️ F&F settlement within 2 working days of exit — down from 30–45 days
📅 Fixed-term employees qualify for gratuity after 1 year

Note: As of May 2026, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu still have state rules pending. Pan-India employers need a state-keyed compliance matrix, not a single template.

3️⃣ The Layoff Wave: India Is in the Room

Over 92,000 tech workers lost jobs in the first five months of 2026 — profitable companies restructuring around AI, not struggling ones cutting costs.

Oracle (30,000), Amazon (30,000+), Meta (8,000) — and most relevant for India, Cognizant's "Project Leap" targeting up to 15,000 cuts, majority in India.

For HR:

🔄 Reskilling and internal mobility are survival strategy now, not optional
📣 Retention conversations matter — IT sector employees are watching closely
🤖 If your L&D plan doesn't account for AI displacement, it's already behind

💬 What Was TSOW Community Asking in May

How do you enforce the 48-hour F&F rule without breaking payroll processes?
How do you get employees to actually use mental health benefits — not just know they exist?
With skills scarce, how do you build capability faster than the market moves?

Drop your questions in #general-q&a — our leaders are ready to answer. 💬

🔮 June: What's Coming

📋Form 16 must be issued to all employees by June 15. Don't let this slip
🔍 Labour Code audits beginning — state-level gaps are the first place inspectors look
🧠 Build your mental health infrastructure now, before it becomes a crisis

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🎉 What’s Coming Up!

TSOW HR Meetup in Pune | June 6
An interactive session for HRs who want less theory and more “this worked for us.” Seats are limited save yours now!
TSOW HR Meetup in Surat | June 6
An HR meetup for meaningful dialogue and shared learning.
Get your seat while spots last.
TSOW HR Meetup in Noida | June 13
Connect, learn, and grow with Noida HR community. Don’t miss your chance to be in the room!

The TSOW Pulse lands every Tuesday. Got something to share? You know where to find us.

June is here. Is your city on the list?

Sadia Vali — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hey {{First Name| there}},

Happy Pride Month, TSOW fam. 🌈

June is the month the world pauses to celebrate community, belonging, and showing up as your whole self. At TSOW, that's not just a June thing. It's the whole point. But we'll take the excuse to say it louder this month.

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🗺️ TSOW HR Meetups | June 2026

Five cities. Five rooms full of HR folks who actually get it. Networking, HR think tanks, a SpringVerify quiz, coffee, and snacks — all on us. Registrations are approval-based, so don't sit on it.

📍 Pune | Saturday, June 6 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Balewadi Where the chai hits different and so do the conversations. 👉 Register for Pune

📍 Surat | Saturday, June 6 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Vesu Rd The city that means business and this meetup is no different. 👉 Register for Surat

📍 Noida | Saturday, June 13 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM NCR's HR crowd has entered the chat. See you there. 👉 Register for Noida

📍 Vadodara | Saturday, June 20 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM Baroda brings the energy. Come ready to contribute. 👉 Register for Vadodara

📍 Jaipur | Saturday, June 20 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM The Pink City gets a little more colourful this June. 👉 Register for Jaipur

Don't see your city? Keep an eye on the full calendar — more dates drop regularly. 👉 View all TSOW events on Luma

💻 June Masterclasses & Webinars | Level Up From Your Desk

Can't make it IRL? We've got you. Three sessions this month worth clearing your calendar for.

June 5 | Why Most Training Fails: Turning Learning into Real Behaviour Change With Manish Kumar, Global HR Thought Leader
Most L&D programs look great on paper. This one gets into why so little actually sticks — and what actually works. 👉 Register here
June 17 | Acumen & Influencing Without Authority With Rumi Bhattacharya, Ex-Head People & Culture, Startup HR Advisor
Influence isn't about the title. It's about clarity, credibility, and how you show up when it matters. For everyone navigating cross-functional chaos. 👉 Register here
June 18 | Building Organizations That Last: Culture, Compliance & the Startup Mindset With Hanish Dewan, People, Process & Culture Advisor
Startups move fast. What they build early determines what lasts. A practical conversation on building for the long game. 👉 Register here

💬 Not in Our Slack Yet? That's the Only Thing We'll Judge You For.

40%+ of HR professionals in India are part of the TSOW universe. A big chunk of the best conversations — peer advice, job opportunities, industry takes, and the occasional Friday meltdown — happen inside our Slack.

It's free. It's active. It's genuinely the best HR corner of the internet.

👉 Join the TSOW Slack community

📱 Your City's WhatsApp Group | Stay in the Loop

Event updates, early registration alerts, last-minute news. Join your city's group and never miss a beat.

June is a month that reminds us why community matters. Whoever you are, wherever you're coming from there's a room for you in this one. 🧡

See you in the meetups, the sessions, and the DMs.

The TSOW Team

The interview is online, the interviewer is AI, and you're not prepared. fun. 💀

Sadia Vali — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hellooo {{First Name| there}},

AI video interviews are no longer a "future of hiring" conversation. They're already in your hiring process. And if you've ever stared blankly at a screen waiting for a human who never shows up, you know exactly what we mean. 😅

Here's how to stop winging it and actually walk in prepared.

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🎥 5 Ways to Prepare for AI Video Interviews

🧘 Treat it like a real interview, not a recording

The biggest mistake candidates make? Treating an AI interview casually because there's no human on the other end. The AI is still evaluating your tone, pace, word choice, and confidence. Show up like someone is watching — because something is.

📋 Know your stories before you sit down

AI interviews love competency-based questions. Before you log in, prepare 3 to 5 solid examples from your work history using the STAR format — Situation, Task, Action, Result. You won't have time to think on the spot.

👁️ Eye contact is still everything

Look directly into the camera, not at your own face on screen. It sounds obvious but almost nobody does it naturally. Practice this before the real thing. It signals confidence and engagement even to an algorithm.

⏱️ Mind your pace. Slow down

Nerves make people rush. AI systems flag unclear or overly fast speech. Speak deliberately, pause between points, and give your answers room to breathe. A short silence is always better than a rambling answer.

🔦 Sort your setup before the day

Lighting, background, audio. These aren't just aesthetics. A dark or cluttered frame, poor sound quality, or a lagging connection can hurt how you come across — and some AI systems factor in visual and audio clarity. Test everything 24 hours before, not 5 minutes before.

🤖 Speaking of AI interviews...

Ever wondered what it actually looks like from the other side?

Goodfit is what modern AI-powered hiring looks like in practice. Every candidate gets an AI voice interview, scored and ranked before a recruiter even opens a CV. No bias, no scheduling chaos, no hours lost on early-stage screening.

If you're an HR professional curious about how AI interviews actually work — or want to see what your candidates experience — it's worth a look.

👉 See Goodfit in action

📊 Job alerts from TSOW

🏢 Name of the Company: Pratilipi
🎩 Job title: Talent Acquisition: Senior HR Manager – People Operations & Rewards
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: End-to-end HR Operations, Payroll, and Compensation

Link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Ratch.ai
🎩 Job title: Talent Acquisition Role
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: AI integration and AI adoption in Talent Acquisition/workflows

link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Snapmint
🎩 Job title: Senior Manager - TA
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: Own and drive full-cycle hiring across tech and non-tech roles, from key ICs to senior leadership

Link to apply

🔥 The HR conversation you've been missing is happening in your city

Every month, HR professionals walk out of TSOW Meetups with one thing in common is they wish they'd come sooner.

No keynotes. No corporate panels. Just the kind of raw, honest conversations that actually change how you work.

10 cities. Limited seats. Which one is yours?

May

June

The people in that room will be talking about it for weeks. Don't be the one who missed it. 👆

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Think you know the answer? Drop it in the TSOW Slack and see how many relate to you. 👇

Join the conversation

See you again soon 🐾
— The TSOW Team

HR admin is eating your week

Sadia Vali — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hey {{First Name | there}},

Some weeks, the best thing TOOLiee can do is hand you the tools that quietly run the parts of HR that shouldn't need your attention anymore — payroll, compliance, attendance, and verification. This week that's exactly what we're doing.

Three platforms. All built for India. All doing the heavy lifting so you don't have to.

👇 Scroll below for TOOLiee's Pick of the Day tools we think are actually worth your time.

🧠 Here's a TOOLiee Fun Fact!

India's HRMS market is growing at 17.34% CAGR. Nearly 3x faster than the global average. Indian HR teams are adopting tech faster than almost anywhere else in the world, and the tools catching up to that demand are being built right here.

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💡 Knowledge Bytes

📌 Manual payroll isn't just slow it's a compliance liability and every manual calculation is a chance for a statutory penalty. Automating payroll is your first line of defence.

📌 Employee self-service isn't a perk, it's a time-saver when employees access their own payslips and leave balances without raising a ticket, HR gets hours back every week.

📌 Verifying a hire after onboarding is already too late background checks run pre-joining are the only ones that protect you. By then, the risk is already inside your organisation.

1️⃣ SumHR

Cloud-based HRMS built for Indian SMEs automating payroll, attendance, leave, and onboarding, with free health insurance and zero-balance salary accounts for employees.

Why HRs love SumHR

📌 Free to start, scales affordably — freemium plan available, pricing from ₹49/employee/month.
📌 Full statutory compliance on autopilot — auto-calculates PF, ESI, TDS, and PT, generating ECR challans and Form 16 without manual input.
📌 Built-in hiring pipeline — post jobs, manage applications on Kanban, never lose a CV in your inbox.
📌 Quick setup, no technical skills needed — biometric integration, mobile clock-ins, and self-service portal ready out of the box.

2️⃣ Pocket HRMS

AI-powered HRMS trusted by 1,500+ companies complete hire-to-retire solution with ML-powered payroll, AI chatbot, and ISO 27001-certified security on Indian servers.

Why HRs love Pocket HRMS

📌 Entire payroll in 3 clicks — ML-trained engine runs fully compliant, error-free payroll with minimal manual input.
📌 smHRty chatbot resolves queries without HR intervention — handles leave, payslip, and policy questions instantly.
📌 AI attendance with GPS — remote clock-ins via smartphone, eliminating buddy punching and manual reconciliation.
📌 ISO 27001 certified, 256-bit encryption — GDPR-compliant data on Indian servers with 2FA and role-based access.

3️⃣ SpringVerify

India's leading background verification platform — automating employment, education, identity, and criminal checks with direct HRIS and ATS integration.

Why HRs love SpringVerify

📌 Instant KYC on WhatsApp — candidates verify on a platform they already use, fast and friction-free.
📌 Full verification spectrum in one dashboard — ID, address, employment history, education, and court records in one place.
📌 API-first, live in hours — plugs into your existing stack without heavy setup or long implementation.
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📍TSOW HR Meetups Coming to Your City

No slides, no jargon — just real conversations with HR peers who get it. Practical frameworks, honest case studies, and meaningful connections over coffee

May

TSOW Meetup Hyderabad May 30 | Forward-thinking HR leaders, honest conversations, and ideas you can act on immediately. Don't miss out →

TSOW Meetup Kochi May 30 | Meaningful dialogue over monologues — share what's working, unpack challenges with peers who get it. Save your seat →

TSOW Meetup Mumbai May 30 | Honest discussions, actionable takeaways, and the kind of networking that actually sticks. Be in the room →

June

TSOW Meetup Pune June 6 | Shared stories, practical frameworks, and insights you can take back to your team right away. Register now →

TSOW Meetup Surat June 6 | Peer-led conversations and fresh perspectives for HR leaders who want takeaways, not theory. Grab your spot →

TSOW Meetup Noida June 13 | Step away from the inbox and into real conversations — leave with ideas you can use on Monday morning. Limited seats →

TSOW Meetup Jaipur June 20 | Real conversations with HR peers who get it — practical takeaways you can act on right away. Grab your seat →

TSOW Meetup Vadodara June 20 | Candid peer discussions and fresh perspectives for HR leaders who want clarity, not just conversation. Register now →

Until next Wednesday — TSOW 🛠️

Your gig workers are now entitled to social security. Is your compliance ready?

Tue, 26 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

What’s on the agenda today?

Hey {{First Name| there}},

India's gig workforce crossed 10 million workers this year and for the first time, they're legally entitled to social security.

The Social Security Code, 2020 is no longer just a bill in waiting. Five major states have notified rules, aggregators have new obligations, and HR teams that rely on contract, gig, or platform workers are now operating in a changed compliance landscape.

Here's what changed, what it means for your workforce, and what you need to have in place before your next audit.

In This Edition We Cover

What gig and platform workers are now entitled to under the new Social Security Code
Which states have notified rules — and what that means for your business
Where companies are getting caught out in implementation
Your gig workforce compliance checklist for Q2 2026

1️⃣ What Changed And Why It Matters Now

The Social Security Code, 2020 brings gig and platform workers into India's formal social security framework for the first time — and as of May 2026, it's live in five major states.

Who's covered: Delivery, mobility, freelance, and logistics workers engaged through app-based platforms
What they get: ESIC coverage and EPFO-linked social security, with contributions shared between the aggregator and government
States where rules are fully notified: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi
Partially notified: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh (three of four Codes)

If you have operations in any of these states, compliance obligations are live now — not pending.

2️⃣ What Aggregators and Employers Now Owe

Contribution requirement: 1–2% of annual turnover, capped at 5% of total payouts to workers, into a new social security fund
Benefits timeline: Medical, accident, life, and old-age coverage rolling out over 24 months
Principal employer liability: If your vendor or contractor doesn't comply, you're legally responsible
UAN mapping: Every gig worker must be mapped to a Universal Account Number the same documentation discipline as permanent headcount
ESIC wage ceiling: ₹21,000/month gross — unchanged since 2017, but coverage now extends to fixed-term employees, contract workers, and platform workers

3️⃣ Where Companies Are Getting Caught Out

🚩 Gig workers treated as "outside" HR's scope — principal employer liability can still apply even when workers are engaged through a third-party aggregator. HR needs visibility here, not just Finance or Legal.
🚩 No UAN mapping for contract workforce — the most common gap. Without it, workers can't access benefits and your compliance record is incomplete.
🚩 Vendor agreements that predate the Code — MSAs signed before 2024 likely don't reflect the new contribution obligations. If they haven't been reviewed, don't assume compliance.
🚩 Fixed-term employees managed like permanent staff — the Code treats them differently for gratuity and social security. Most HR policies haven't caught up.

4️⃣ Your Gig Workforce Compliance Checklist for Q2 2026

✅ Map all gig, platform, and fixed-term workers to UANs — don't leave this to your vendor
✅ Review aggregator and vendor agreements against the new contribution requirements
✅ Confirm which Labour Codes your operating states have notified
✅ Update HR policies to distinguish between permanent, fixed-term, gig, and contract obligations
✅ Coordinate with Legal on ESIC coverage thresholds — the ₹21,000 ceiling may be under revision

Dr. Udai Pareek centenary series

In 1990, Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline and the world started talking about the learning organisation.

In India, Dr. Udai Pareek had already been working on the same idea for over a decade.

But his lens was different. Not abstract systems thinking. Practical reality.

How do organisations with hierarchy, deference, and complex dynamics actually learn? That's what his work was solving for.

OCTAPACE wasn't just about culture. It was about creating the conditions required for learning.

Because organisations don't learn unless people can speak openly. Unless problems are confronted directly. Unless trust exists.

In today's world, where skills have a 2-3 year shelf life, that idea feels less like theory and more like survival.

The frameworks weren't built for a moment. They were built for this moment.

Next: the system : How OCTAPACE, Role Efficacy, and the learning organisation connect.

— Kartik Mandaville, Founder & CEO, Springworks

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🎉 What’s Coming Up!

TSOW HR Meetup in Hyderabad | May 30
An interactive session for HRs who want less theory and more “this worked for us.” Seats are limited save yours now!
TSOW HR Meetup in Kochi | May 30
An HR meetup for meaningful dialogue and shared learning.
Get your seat while spots last.
TSOW HR Meetup in Mumbai | May 30
Connect, learn, and grow with Mumbai HR community. Don’t miss your chance to be in the room!

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HR Playbook 7.0 wrapped. What a Wednesday. 🎉

Mon, 25 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Last Wednesday was May 20. International HR Day. And we could not have spent it better.

HR Playbook 7.0 is officially a wrap. This was the most special edition we have ever built. Not because of the sessions or the speakers, but because of the room. Because of you.

Thank you for showing up. You reminded us exactly why we do this. 🙌

10 Takeaways from HR Playbook 7.0 👇

1️⃣AI doesn't need a technical background to be useful in HR. It needs the right starting point.

2️⃣Claude Cowork fits directly into the workflows HR teams already run. Hiring, L&D, documentation and employee communication.

3️⃣The problem with workforce learning isn't the tools. Most organizations are still measuring access instead of capability change.

4️⃣AI can personalize learning at scale. But without strategic intent behind it, it just makes the same broken system faster.

5️⃣Using prompts is not the same as seeing outcomes. The real shift happens when AI is embedded into how your function operates.

6️⃣When hiring is treated like a product, every part of the funnel gets better. Speed, quality and candidate experience included.

7️⃣AI-powered recruitment is not about replacing recruiters. It's about making sure they only step in when it actually matters.

8️⃣Employee safety and healthcare access are no longer perks. They are the foundation of how modern organizations retain and grow their people.

9️⃣The future of HR technology is not about automating existing processes. It's about reimagining them entirely with AI at the center.

🔟When AI becomes infrastructure in your HR function, it stops being something one person knows how to use and starts being how the whole team operates.

Missed a session? No worries.

All session replays and resources are still available. Head back to the event and watch anything you missed, download the templates and grab everything waiting for you.

Watch the Replays →

Your 50 free Goodfit assessments are still available. 🎁

Every HR Playbook 7.0 attendee walks away with 50 free AI-powered assessments. Book your demo and claim yours before the offer closes.

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Those requests came from non-traded BDC investors in Q1 2026, and most got back roughly half of what they asked for. Moody's U.S. BDC sector outlook: Negative.

See how private credit works when it's built for individual investors.

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A huge thank you to the partners who made HR Playbook 7.0 possible. 🙌

None of this happens without the incredible sponsors who showed up for this community on May 20. Please take a moment to appreciate them.

🤝 HROne Building the AI-first future of HR, one intelligent experience at a time. Thank you for bringing your vision to life in this room.

💼 Onsurity For showing the HR community what the new basics at work actually look like in practice. Employee safety and healthcare access done right.

🤖 greytHR For walking the room through how Agentic AI is already quietly transforming HR operations across India. Practical, honest and genuinely useful.

🎯 Goodfit For the live recruitment case study and for gifting every single attendee 50 free assessments. That generosity did not go unnoticed.

Before we sign off, one last thing.

There are two kinds of people reading this right now.

The ones who were in the room last Wednesday and can not wait for the next one. 🙋

And the ones who missed it and spent the weekend regretting it. 😬

Both of you are not missing the next one.

HR Playbook 8.0. August 12. See you there.

Still doing the same job you hate? maybe read this. 💀

Sadia Vali — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hellooo {{First Name| there}},

Thinking about switching careers but have no idea where to start? You're not alone and the usual advice isn't built for you. 😅

Resumes and job boards were designed with traditional applicants in mind. As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics.

Dr. Dawn Graham's Switchers was written exactly for this moment.

Here are 5 tips every HR professional considering a career change needs to know.

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📚 5 Tips from Switchers for HR Professionals Ready to Make the Leap

🧠 Forget the usual rules. They weren't made for you

The usual rules and job search tools won't work for a career switcher. The process requires more than just qualifications — it demands a strategic approach and a well-crafted plan to rebrand yourself effectively for a new industry. Stop applying like everyone else and start thinking like a switcher.

🪞 Rebrand yourself before someone else does it for you

Rebrand yourself by aligning your professional identity with your new aspirations and spotlight the transferable skills that companies covet. Your HR background has more crossover value than you think — but only if you frame it right.

🤝 Build ambassadors, not just connections

Reach decision-makers by recruiting ambassadors from within your network — people already inside your target industry who can vouch for you, forward your name, and open doors that cold applications never will. 60 to 80% of jobs are landed through contacts.

🎯 Think like the hiring manager

Understand the concerns of hiring managers and think like they do — craft a resume that catches their attention within six seconds. A switcher who speaks the language of the role they want will always beat a switcher who leads with where they've been.

💪 Adopt the Four Rs mindset

All switchers reflect the Four Rs mindset: they take responsibility for their choices, they're realistic about their strengths and weaknesses, they're resilient, and they persist. Career switches aren't quick. The mindset you carry into it matters as much as the strategy.

📊 Job alerts from TSOW

🏢 Name of the Company: Mygate
🎩 Job title: Talent Acquisition: Talent Recruiter
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: Talent management

Link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: UAV & Defence Technology,
🎩 Job title: HRBP
🌍️ Location: Tamil Nadu
📝 Brief description of the role: talent management, organizational development, employee engagement, workforce planning, performance management, succession planning, and HR strategy aligned with business goals.

link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Bolna.ai
🎩 Job title: HR Recruiter & Coordinator
🌍️ Location: Bangalore
📝 Brief description of the role: End-to-end hiring, ensure seamless HR processes and support.

Link to apply

📅 TSOW Events

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Ahmedabad, Saturday, May 23

TSOW meetup in Ahmedabad is bringing together HR leaders in for an intimate evening of conversation, perspective-sharing, and meaningful connections. Don’t miss out. Register now!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Hyderabad, Saturday, May 30
Hyderabad edition is where forward-thinking HR leaders come together for honest conversations and practical learning. Discuss evolving workplace trends, exchange real experiences, and leave with ideas you can act on immediately. Limited seats — don’t miss out!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Kochi, Saturday, May 30
Our meetup is all about meaningful dialogue over monologues. Share what’s working, unpack real challenges, and collaborate with HR peers who truly understand the landscape. Save your seat and be part of the conversation!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Mumbai, Saturday, May 30
This meetup is designed for HR professionals who believe the best ideas come from shared experiences. Expect honest discussions, actionable takeaways, and meaningful networking. Don’t miss your chance to be in the room!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Pune, Saturday, June 6

The Pune meetup brings together HR professionals who believe learning happens best through shared stories. Expect practical frameworks, open discussions, and insights you can take back to your teams right away. Seats are limited — register now!

✅ TSOW HR Meetup in Surat, Saturday, June 6

Surat gathering is designed for HR leaders who want actionable takeaways — not just theory. Engage in peer-led conversations, discover fresh perspectives, and walk away inspired to build stronger workplaces. Grab your spot before it fills up!

✅ TSOW HR Meetup in Noida, Saturday, June 13

Step away from the inbox and into real conversations with HR leaders who get it. Swap stories, spark ideas, and leave with practical takeaways you can use on Monday morning. Plus, yes — your digital badge is ready. Limited seats, don’t wait!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Jaipur, Saturday, June 20

An interactive session for HRs who want less theory and more “this worked for us.” Learn from real case studies, honest conversations, and practical frameworks you can apply immediately. Seats are limited, save yours now!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Vadodara, Saturday, June 20

No slides, no jargon. Just meaningful conversations with HR peers over coffee. Share challenges, exchange insights, and walk away with fresh perspectives on people, culture, and leadership. Grab your seats!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Hyderabad, Saturday, July 4

This Hyderabad edition brings HR leaders together for candid conversations and practical insights. Just real challenges, real solutions, and real connections. Walk in with questions, walk out with clarity. Limited seats, grab yours now!

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🤔 Real talk before you close this tab

Whatever your answer is, know this — you're not alone in that feeling. The TSOW community is full of HR professionals figuring out the same thing. Come share it, someone in the room has probably been exactly where you are. 👇

Join the conversation on Slack

See you again soon 🐾 — The TSOW Team

We're live. First session in one hour. 🚀

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:30:00 +0000

Today is finally the day! HR Playbook 7.0 is officially live, and we are kicking things off in just one hour.

If there is one piece of advice we can give you, it is this: do not miss the first half of our opening session.

The first hour is where we are stripping away the confusion and setting up the foundational groundwork. If you log in late, it is going to be incredibly tough to catch up once we pivot into the live, hands-on workflows.

Here is what you need to know to get ready:

🛠️ Claude Cowork for HR: Getting Started

Time: 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM IST
Host: Abhash Kumar

Abhash isn't here to dump heavy theory, marketing buzzwords, or generic "top 10 prompts every leader needs" on you. Instead, this is a completely practical, hands-on walkthrough of how AI actually plugs into your daily routine.

💬 AI Can Teach Anyone Anything. So Why Is Your Workforce Still Stuck?

Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM IST
Featuring: Hanish Dewan, Shashwat K. Mitra, Mitu Seth and Pinky Jayaprakash

Right after the opening workshop, this panel is diving straight into a pretty uncomfortable truth. AI can personalize learning, spot capability gaps, and scale professional development faster than anything we have seen before. So, why are most organizations still struggling to build workforce skills at scale?

This isn't going to be a polite, safe corporate conversation, which is exactly why you should be in the room for it.

Don’t Underestimate the Room

Beyond the main stages, remember to use the collective brainpower of everyone attending. HR Playbook 7.0 is packed with CHROs, HRBPs, talent leaders, founders, and people ops teams who are all trying to solve the exact same problems in real time.

Here is how you can get involved and lean on the community today:

Jump into the Networking Lounge during breaks to chat with peers.
Visit the booths to explore what is actually changing in HR Tech.
Use the Event Feed to share your takeaways and participate live.
Open the People tab to start casual, direct conversations.
Join the TSOW Community to stay connected long after today wraps up.

Extra Perks Waiting For You Today

🎁 50 Free Goodfit Assessments
📜 A LinkedIn-ready participation certificate
📚 Practical resources and workflow templates
🎙️ Live Q&A across all sessions

The room is open. Jump in before the first session starts.

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The room is officially open and the conversations are about to begin. See you inside!

👉 Enter HR Playbook 7.0 Here

Tomorrow. 7 hours. A room full of HR's best. Are you in or not? 🤨

Tue, 19 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Tomorrow is the day. HR Playbook 7.0 goes live and we could not be more ready to have you in the room.

Before you close this email — here's everything you need to know about tomorrow. Bookmark it. Screenshot it. Save it. Because this is your full guide to making the most of May 20. 😄

Here's what tomorrow looks like 👇

🛠️11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Claude Cowork for HR: Getting Started
💬1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Panel Discussion: AI Can Teach Anyone Anything. So Why Is Your Workforce Still Stuck?
🤖2:15 PM – 2:35 PM | From Prompts to Outcomes: How Agentic AI is Quietly Rewriting HR Operations
🔍2:35 PM – 3:20 PM | Hiring is a Product, Not a Process
💼3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | Presenting the New Basics at Work
🚀3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | Beyond Automation: HROne's Vision for the AI-Powered Future of HR
⚡4:00 PM – 6:00 PM | The Final Masterclass: Advanced Claude Cowork

This is your Wednesday. Register now and secure your spot 👇

And on top of all of that 👇

🎁 50 free Goodfit assessments. Every applicant on your open roles interviewed, scored and ranked. Yours just for showing up.
📜 A LinkedIn-ready certificate. Exclusive to live attendees who stay till the end.
🛠️ Practical masterclass resources. The kind you'll open again weeks from now.
🎙️ Live Q&A in every session. Your real questions answered on stage.
🏆 A full day inside India's largest HR community.

Seven hours. All of this. Worth every minute. Register now 👇

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Tomorrow, don’t just sit quietly in another webinar tab.
Talk to people. Jump into the lounge. Visit booths. Start conversations. Add connections before everyone disappears back into meetings and hiring reviews on Wednesday morning.

Here’s your pre-game checklist 👇

✅ Join the TSOW Community
✅ Keep your Airmeet link ready
✅ Explore the Networking Lounge during breaks
✅ Use the Event Feed & People tab to connect with attendees
✅ Block your calendar properly because this is not a “join for 10 minutes” kind of event

I'm Ready. Register Now →

2 days. Here's everything waiting for you this Wednesday. 👀

Sadia Vali — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

2 days. That's it. Wednesday is almost here and HR Playbook 7.0 is about to go live.

And we just want to take a moment to make sure you know exactly what you've signed up for. Because this isn't a log-in-and-listen kind of Wednesday. This is a full day of rolling up your sleeves, building real capability and walking away with things you can actually use on Thursday morning.

Let's get into it. 👇

🎁First. The surprise that keeps on giving.

Goodfit is giving every single HR Playbook 7.0 attendee 50 free assessments.

You're spending the day learning what AI can do for HR. Goodfit is what that looks like applied directly to your hiring funnel. Every applicant interviewed and scored. A ranked shortlist ready. Your recruiter untouched until it actually matters.

50 assessments. Free. Just for being in the room on Wednesday.

Demo slots are limited this week. Register now and secure yours 👇

Now. Here's what the day actually looks like.

🛠️11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Claude Cowork for HR: Getting Started | Led by Abhash Kumar, VP-Marketing, Springworks

This is the session that finally answers the question every HR professional has been quietly googling. How do I actually use AI in my HR work? Just you and Claude Cowork getting properly acquainted. By 1pm you'll know exactly where AI fits in your function and how to use it without starting from scratch every time.

💬 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM AI Can Teach Anyone Anything. So Why Is Your Workforce Still Stuck?

AI can personalize content, predict skill gaps and recommend pathways in real time. And yet most workforce learning strategies look exactly the same as they did five years ago.

So what is actually broken?

Four of the sharpest people leaders we know are about to get into it 👇

🎙️ Hanish Dewan | CHRO and Startup Adviser
🎙️ Shashwat K. Mitra | Executive Leader, People and Transformation
🎙️ Mitu Seth | Group CHRO, BDO India LLP
🎙️ Pinky Jayaprakash | Head of People and Culture, Moolya

No easy answers. No comfortable takes. Just the real conversation the L&D world has been avoiding.

🤖 2:15 PM – 2:35 PM From Prompts to Outcomes: How Agentic AI is Quietly Rewriting HR Operations | Led by Lokesh Gupta, SVP, of Product Management, Greytip

Everyone is using prompts. Very few are seeing real outcomes. Lokesh walks through how greytHR's AI is already transforming hiring, attendance, payroll and employee engagement — moving AI from a tool you use occasionally to a system that works alongside you every day.

🔍 2:35 PM – 3:20 PM Hiring is a Product, Not a Process | Led by Abhash Kumar, VP-Marketing, Springworks and Rohit Venugopal, Co-founder, Goodfit

Part masterclass. Part live demo. All practical.

Abhash and Rohit walk through what it actually looks like to rebuild your recruitment workflow with AI. Real process. Real results. And 50 free Goodfit assessments waiting for you on the other side.

💼3:20 PM – 3:40 PM Presenting the New Basics at Work | Led by Rudranil Dutta, Designation Head of Revenue (Bangalore & West), Onsurity

Employee safety. Healthcare access. Operational simplicity. These aren't perks anymore they're the foundation of how modern organisations grow.

Rudranil walks through what the new basics at work actually look like in practice, with a live product walkthrough showing how integrated HR and healthcare solutions help businesses scale with confidence, trust and autonomy.

🚀 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM Beyond Automation: HROne's Vision for the AI-Powered Future of HR | Led by Magnum N Gupta, Product Director, HROne

Most HR tech is still automating yesterday's processes. HROne is doing something different.

In this session Magnum walks through how AI is moving beyond simple automation to fundamentally transform how organisations hire, engage, manage and empower their people. And then he shows you exactly what that looks like live.

⚡4:00 PM – 6:00 PM The Final Masterclass: Advanced Claude Cowork | Led by Abhash Kumar, VP-Marketing, Springworks

The morning builds your foundation. The afternoon builds your function.

This is where everything from the day stops being interesting and starts being useful. Complex HR workflows. AI-assisted hiring pipelines. Learning programmes built from brief to delivery. Multi-step processes that make your HR function genuinely smarter.

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✅ 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM IST blocked in your calendar. Non-negotiable.
✅ Airmeet link saved. Do it right now while you're reading this.

2 days. A full day of sessions. 50 free Goodfit assessments. A certificate worth posting. And a room full of HR professionals who take this work as seriously as you do.

The HR professionals who show up on Wednesday are going to go back to work doing things differently. Don't be the one catching up on Thursday. 👀

I'm Ready. Register Now →

50 free assessments. For every attendee. Yes, really.

Fri, 15 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Guess what Goodfit is doing for every single HR Playbook 7.0 attendee? 🎁

Every person who shows up on May 20 walks away with 50 free assessments from Goodfit.

Told you HR Playbook 7.0 was full of surprises. 😄

Here's what that means in practice you're spending the day learning what AI can do for HR. Goodfit is what that looks like applied directly to your hiring funnel. Every applicant interviewed and scored. A ranked shortlist ready to go. Your recruiter untouched until it actually matters.

And you get 50 assessments to try it yourself. Free. Just for being in the room.

Oh and demo slots are limited so register now and grab yours.

And that's not even everything. Here's what else is waiting for you on May 20 👇

🏅 A shiny LinkedIn-ready certificate. Because showing up deserves to be recognised.
🛠️ Hands-on Claude Cowork masterclasses. Built to make your HR life genuinely easier, not just more informed.
📁 Resources and takeaways you'll reference for months. Not a folder of slides you'll never open.
🤝 Networking with India's largest HR community. The connections you make on May 20 are worth as much as the sessions themselves.

So there’s only one thing left to do - Sign up here

Here's who's joining the conversation 🎙️

🎙️ Hanish Dewan | CHRO and Startup Adviser
🎙️ Shashwat K. Mitra | Executive Leader, People and Transformation
🎙️ Mitu Seth | Group CHRO, BDO India LLP
🎙️ Pinky Jayaprakash | Head of People and Culture, Moolya
🎙️ Lokesh Gupta | SVP, Product Management, greytHR
🎙️ Magnum N Gupta | Product Director, HROne
🎙️ Rudranil Dutta | Head of Revenue (Bangalore & West), Onsurity

From AI-powered HR workflows to workforce learning and organisational transformation, this is a room built around practical conversations, not surface-level trends.

Wednesday, May 20. Register

One Wednesday. Don't miss it. Register here

HR Playbook 7.0 | Wednesday, May 20 | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Virtual

AI-optimized one gets the interview.

Sadia Vali — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Hellooo {{First Name| there}},

The people getting callbacks aren’t always the most experienced they’re the ones whose resumes are optimized to survive both AI screening and human attention spans 😅

The good news? You can absolutely use AI to your advantage.

👇Here are 5 smart ways to make your HR resume work with the system instead of against it.

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🧠 5 Ways to Use AI to Optimize Your HR Resume

1️⃣ Run your resume against the job description before you apply

Paste your resume and the JD into ChatGPT or Claude and ask what keywords or skills are missing. Matching the exact language in the JD helps your resume survive ATS filters and reach actual recruiters.

2️⃣ Ask AI to quantify your impact

“Managed HR operations” won’t stand out, but measurable impact will. Use AI to turn responsibilities into outcomes like hiring improvements, retention gains, or process efficiencies.

3️⃣ Use AI to tailor your resume summary for every role

Your summary is the first thing recruiters read, so generic lines won’t help anymore. Ask AI to create a short summary that matches the role, industry, and tone of the job description.

4️⃣ Let AI find the gaps before recruiters do

Ask AI what skills or experiences seem missing from your resume based on the JD. This gives you a chance to add context, reframe experience, or prepare explanations before interviews happen.

5️⃣ Use AI to stress-test your resume for red flags

AI can help identify things recruiters may question like job-hopping, career gaps, or overqualification. Even if you don’t agree with every suggestion, you’ll know what concerns may come up during screening calls.

📊 Job alerts from TSOW

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🎩 Job title: Talent Acquisition: Sr. Manager – Performance Excellence
🌍️ Location: Mumbai
📝 Brief description of the role: Talent management & succession planning expertise

Link to apply

🏢 Name of the Company: Eclat
🎩 Job title: HR Generalist
🌍️ Location: Ahmedabad
📝 Brief description of the role: Day-to-day HR Ops and Employee engagement

link to apply

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🎩 Job title: Trainer
🌍️ Location: Mumbai
📝 Brief description of the role: Conducting sales onboarding training for new joiners.

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Most AI conversations are inspiring. Almost none of them change how your team works on Monday. 💭

HR Playbook 7.0 is different. Here's what we're actually doing on May 20:

Building real workflows with Claude
Redesigning hiring and onboarding with AI
Moving from manual processes to something smarter 📍

Done with the theory? This one's for you. 🚀

📅 TSOW Events

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Bangalore, Saturday, May 16

No slides, no jargon — just meaningful conversations with HR peers over coffee. Share challenges, exchange insights, and walk away with fresh perspectives on people, culture, and leadership. Grab your seats!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Indore, Saturday, May 16

This Indore edition brings HR leaders together for candid conversations and practical insights. No fluff — just real challenges, real solutions, and real connections. Walk in with questions, walk out with clarity. Limited seats — grab yours now!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Ahmedabad, Saturday, May 23

TSOW meetup in Ahmedabad is bringing together HR leaders in for an intimate evening of conversation, perspective-sharing, and meaningful connections. Don’t miss out. Register now!

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Pune, Saturday, June 6

✅ TSOW HR Meetup in Surat, Saturday, June 6

✅ TSOW HR Meetup in Noida, Saturday, June 13

✅TSOW HR Meetup in Jaipur, Saturday, June 20

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Stop predicting AI. Start building with it.

Wed, 13 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

One week from now, thousands of HR professionals will log into HR Playbook 7.0 for a conversation the industry can’t afford to ignore.

AI is already changing how organizations hire, learn, manage performance, and make people decisions.

The real question now is:
Who’s actually building HR functions around it?

Meet the leaders shaping the conversation

🙎‍♂️Hanish Dewan, CHRO, Startup Adviser & Mentor

He Has led HR and business transformation across Wipro, KPMG, Times Network, and Eduvanz. Brings deep expertise in aligning people strategy directly with business outcomes and organisational change.

🙎‍♂️ Lokesh Gupta, VP, Product Management, Greytip

Built and scaled product and technology functions across greytHR, Plex Systems, and Dattus. Specialises in SaaS platforms, cloud technology, AI-driven systems, and product innovation at scale.

👩‍🦰Mitu Seth, Group Chief Human Resource Officer, BDO India

Brings decades of leadership experience across workforce wellbeing, inclusion, engagement, and organisational transformation. Focused on what happens when AI adoption moves faster than people readiness.

🙎‍♂️Magnum N Gupta, Founding Product Leader, HROne

Has spent 15+ years building and scaling SaaS products, including helping HROne become one of India’s top-rated HR tech platforms serving 3,000+ businesses. Brings deep expertise in HR technology, cloud transformation, and product innovation at scale.

🙎‍♂️Shashwat K. Mitra, Executive Leader, People & Transformation

Started as an engineer before building global HR functions across markets. Known for combining operational thinking with people strategy, analytics, and culture transformation at scale.

👩‍🦰Pinky Jayaprakash, Head of People & Culture, Moolya

Already building AI-enabled culture systems in practice. Uses real-time data and AI to help organisations make sharper people decisions and scale culture intentionally.

And beyond the speaker lineup 👀

🏅 Participation certificates
🎁 Lucky draw prizes & giveaways
🤝 Networking with thousands of HR professionals
🔥 Practical workflows you’ll actually use after the event

It’s a room full of HR professionals figuring out what the next version of the function looks like together.

📅 May 20
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And one week from now, those conversations begin.

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Need a POSH Certified trainer

Tue, 12 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

What’s on the agenda today?

Hey {{First Name| there}},

In the TSOW community, Tejasvi was looking for a POSH trainer with one condition: it has to actually work for Gen Z. Not passive. Not for-the-sake-of-it.

That single request reveals a two-layer problem most HR teams haven't fully solved: the compliance gap and the generational gap.

In This Edition We Cover

Why Gen Z is raising the bar on what POSH needs to look like
The July 2025 rule that made non-compliance board-level news
Where most ICCs quietly fail
Your POSH compliance checklist for Q2 2026

🧑‍🏫Gen Z Doesn’t Just Want Compliance. They Want Culture.

Over 70% of Gen Z employees consider DEI a key factor in choosing where to work, and they can tell when a company is just checking a box.

For Gen Z, POSH isn’t just a “women’s issue.” It’s a people issue. They expect:

Safety for all gender identities
Zero tolerance for microaggressions
Training that feels relevant, not outdated

As Adv. Ruchi Kumar puts it, Gen Z wants proof the system actually works, not just that it exists.

🎟️The Rule Change That Made This Board-Level

From July 14, 2025, companies must include detailed POSH disclosures in their Board’s Report, including trainings conducted, complaints received, and actions taken.

Non-disclosure is now a Companies Act violation too, with penalties up to ₹50,000 and stricter action for repeat non-compliance.

If HR hasn’t discussed this with legal yet, it’s time to.

🤔Where Most ICCs Quietly Fail

Common gaps companies miss:

🚩 No external member on the ICC
🚩 ICC not reconstituted after resignations
🚩 POSH policy still doesn’t cover remote or hybrid work
🚩 Annual report not filed with the District Officer
🚩 SHe-Box registration still pending

📋Your Q2 2026 POSH Checklist:

✅ Confirm ICC structure and active members
✅ Update policies for hybrid workplaces
✅ Ensure POSH training was conducted in the last 12 months
✅ File annual reports and board disclosures
✅ Complete SHe-Box registration
✅ Train ICC members, not just employees

📌The HR Room You Don’t Want to Miss This Year

If building an HR function that’s actually ready for 2026 is on your mind, this is the room to be in.

HR Playbook 7.0 is more than content. More than a masterclass. It’s India’s largest HR community coming together for one Wednesday, and everything that comes with being in that room.

What to expect:

Hands-on Claude masterclasses
A live AI hiring case study with Goodfit
A panel on why workforce capability-building is still broken

HR’s future isn’t waiting, so why should you?

Show up live👉 Register here

Dr. Udai Pareek centenary series

📌We've been asking employees the wrong question for decades.

Are they satisfied?

Dr. Udai Pareek thought that wasn't enough. He asked something sharper: do people feel effective in their roles?

That distinction changes everything.

A person can be satisfied and completely ineffective. A person can be dissatisfied but deeply effective.

Satisfaction tells you how people feel. Efficacy tells you how they function.

He broke this down further — looking at whether a role feels central, connected to others, and allows room to grow. He called it Role Efficacy.

What's interesting is when this work showed up.

He published it in the 1980s. The industry caught up 30 years later and started calling it "employee experience" and "role design" — as if they were new ideas.

The question I keep coming back to: Are we measuring how happy people are, or how effective they feel? Because they're not the same thing.

Next: the learning organisation — before it was a trend.

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🎉 What’s Coming Up!

TSOW HR Meetup in Bangalore | May 16
An HR meetup for meaningful dialogue and shared learning.
— Get your seat while spots last.
TSOW HR Meetup in Indore | May 16
Connect, learn, and grow with Indore’s HR community. — Don’t miss your chance to be in the room!
TSOW HR Meetup in Ahmedabad | Saturday, May 23
An interactive session for HRs who want less theory and more “this worked for us.” Seats are limited — save yours now!

See you next Tuesday!

Everything you get at HR Playbook 7.0 and it's a lot 👀

Fri, 08 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Learning all day and winning along the way? That's an HR Playbook kind of Wednesday. 😄
The kind you'll reference weeks and months after May 20.
Beyond everything else on this list, you're spending May 20 inside a room of HR professionals who take this work as seriously as you do.
The conversations in this room have a habit of showing up in how people work for months after.

🙌 What to Expect at HR Playbook 7.0

Real, practical sessions built for the challenges HR professionals are navigating right now 👇

🛠️ Using Claude Cowork in real HR workflows — hiring, L&D and operations
💬 Why workforce learning is still stuck in 2026 and what to do about it
🔍 What AI-powered recruitment looks like in practice
⚡ Building AI workflows that make your HR function smarter
👀 More sessions being added. Watch this space

So there’s only one thing left to do - Sign up here

The Perks of Being in This Room

🎁 Live Lucky Draw — Win Throughout the Day

This isn't a raffle at the end. We're making it exciting all day long.

⏰ A new winner announced every single hour
🎊 10 lucky attendees walk away with exciting prizes
🔁 Every attendee is automatically entered — just show up and stay
🔔 Winners announced live — keep those notifications on

Learning all day and winning along the way? That's an HR Playbook kind of Wednesday. 😄

📜 A Certificate Worth Posting

Not every certificate deserves to go on LinkedIn. This one does.

✨ Exclusive to live attendees who stay till the end
🔗 Ready to post straight to your LinkedIn profile
💼 Signals continuous learning, community engagement and real practitioner-level curiosity
🌟 Proof that you're serious about levelling up your HR game — to your team, your boss and your next one

Because let's be honest — we all love a little public validation. 😄

🛠️ Practical Masterclass Resources

Not slides you'll never open again.

📂 HR-specific resources built around real workflows
🔖 The kind you'll reference weeks — and months — after May 20
✅ Everything you need to go back to work and start applying immediately

🎙️ Live Q&A With Every Speaker

Your real questions. Answered live. By the people who have actually done the work.

💬 No chatbox that nobody reads
🙋 A real, live conversation with every speaker on stage
🎯 Bring your specific challenges. This is where they get answered

🏆 India's Largest HR Community. For One Full Day

Beyond everything else on this list — you're spending May 20 inside a room of HR professionals who take this work as seriously as you do.

🤝 Connect with CHROs, HRBPs, L&D leaders and talent heads
💡 The conversations in this room have a habit of showing up in how people work for months after
🌟 This is what India's HR community looks like when it comes together

Playbook perks = fun + learning + a few chances to win big

One Wednesday. All of this. Don't miss it. Register here

HR Playbook 7.0 | Wednesday, May 20 | 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Virtual

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