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Why women leave the workplace

India loves to measure women's progress by seats: a third of Parliament, a historic law. But away from the cameras, lacs of women are slipping out of the workforce, and we barely register it. Some leave after marriage or a first child; many more are pushed by something we never call a barrier, the arbitrary transfer that uproots a whole family overnight. In 2025 a High Court finally named it discrimination. This long view asks the harder question behind the headline count: not whether a woman can get the job, but whether she's allowed to keep it.

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Future of Work

Microsoft opens fourth cloud region in Hyderabad, targeting AI and global south demand

Hyderabad's growing status as a technology hub is sharpening demand for cloud infrastructure skills, datacenter operations expertise and AI capability across the city's workforce.

23 Sep
AI at work

Trump renames AI 'super intelligence' and rejects global regulation at the UN

The shift signals Washington's intent to accelerate AI development without international guardrails raising the stakes for how skills, standards and oversight evolve globally.

23 Sep
Future of Work

Workday expands its India GCC as it builds agentic systems

Chennai is becoming a product and AI engineering base, not a support hub , a shift that changes what skills the city's tech roles actually demand.

22 Sep
Future of Work

Microsoft opens fourth cloud region in Hyderabad, targeting AI and global south demand

Hyderabad's growing status as a technology hub is sharpening demand for cloud infrastructure skills, datacenter operations expertise and AI capability across the city's workforce.

23 Sep
AI at work

Trump renames AI 'super intelligence' and rejects global regulation at the UN

The shift signals Washington's intent to accelerate AI development without international guardrails raising the stakes for how skills, standards and oversight evolve globally.

23 Sep
Future of Work

Workday expands its India GCC as it builds agentic systems

Chennai is becoming a product and AI engineering base, not a support hub , a shift that changes what skills the city's tech roles actually demand.

22 Sep
Hiring

Vedanta power onboards 54 campus hires, more than half of them women

Women outnumbering men at entry level in a traditionally male-dominated sector signals a shift in how India's power industry is building its future workforce.

22 Sep
Leadership

Women majority in four sectors, but C-suite ceiling stays largely intact

Senior leadership share stalled at 29.4% since 2023, and the report finds that even women with CEO-feeder experience are less likely than men to reach the top.

22 Sep
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Hiring

Vedanta power onboards 54 campus hires, more than half of them women

Women outnumbering men at entry level in a traditionally male-dominated sector signals a shift in how India's power industry is building its future workforce.

22 Sep
Leadership

Women majority in four sectors, but C-suite ceiling stays largely intact

Senior leadership share stalled at 29.4% since 2023, and the report finds that even women with CEO-feeder experience are less likely than men to reach the top.

22 Sep
Future of Work

Semicon India 2026 wraps up with 56 announcements and a push to build chip talent

Workforce skilling sits at the heart of a chip-sector expansion that could reshape demand for engineers, designers and technicians over the next decade.

21 Sep
Future of Work

Microsoft's agri-food CTO says India's edge in AI lies in farm applications

The argument points toward a division of AI labour: foundational model-building may be ceded to the US and China, while application-layer work becomes India's competitive ground.

21 Sep
The long view
The cult of "I'll be happy when"
Optimisation culture taught us to defer living for the next milestone and to stop seeing the life we're in. On the cult of delayed gratification, and its antidote.
The end of the capability premium
As AI erodes the skills that defined professional work, purpose and wellbeing become the real differentiator. Why India, home to the world's highest workplace burnout, faces the sharpest shift and is the least prepared for it.
On a work laptop, a personal AI account protects you far less than it promises
On a work laptop, a personal ChatGPT or Claude account gives little real privacy. The sharper risk is pasting confidential data, which can cost your job. With legal counsel from Ajay Veer Singh.
The courage to slow down
1,134 people building the world's most powerful AI just asked for a way to slow it down. In a culture that worships speed, the real courage is the brake.
Why employee wellbeing is becoming a competitive hiring advantage
Wellbeing is becoming decisive in hiring but a 2024 Oxford study found the apps don't work. What real workplace wellbeing looks like, and how to spot it.
Told to pass a test, OpenAI's models broke out and hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI's models broke out of a test, hacked Hugging Face and took the answers to their own exam. What it signals for the future of work. The first documented case of an AI system running an end-to-end intrusion on its own was not an act of rebellion.
US-based firm Curative says it replaced Salesforce and cut a $600,000 bill to zero
Curative says it replaced Salesforce and erased a $600,000 bill with AI in two months. Wocult checks the claim against MIT, BCG and Gartner research on why most corporate AI projects fail, and what it means for the future of work.
Vineet Nayar says the quiet part out loud on AI-era layoffs
Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, did something unusual this week. He publicly criticised the way companies are handling AI-driven layoffs and questioned the values of the leaders making those calls.
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Your gold stash could cost you more than you think

The gold in your family locker has a tax bill. The rules changed in 2024.

Why Modi asked India to stop buying gold ?

India's gold habit costs more than dollars. A Supreme Court advocate names what it's really funding.

India's GCC moment and the leadership gap nobody is naming

India’s GCCs have scaled fast. The real test now is whether they can move beyond strong execution to build strategic ownership, global influence and outcome-led leadership.

Your gold stash could cost you more than you think

The gold in your family locker has a tax bill. The rules changed in 2024.

Why Modi asked India to stop buying gold ?

India's gold habit costs more than dollars. A Supreme Court advocate names what it's really funding.

India's GCC moment and the leadership gap nobody is naming

India’s GCCs have scaled fast. The real test now is whether they can move beyond strong execution to build strategic ownership, global influence and outcome-led leadership.

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