What we write about.
Four tracks: HR leadership, India compliance, global HR, and product. Compact, specific, and backed by customer data where we can.
HR leadership · Apr 2026
Measuring HR ROI in 2026: the metrics that actually move the board
Cost-to-hire and time-to-fill were table stakes a decade ago. Today's board wants to see time-to-productive, offer-accept rate, and HR-ops cost per employee. Here's how to instrument all three.
Read →Product · Mar 2026
Release notes Q1 2026: workflow builder v2, GCC templates, Form 16 updates
Q1 2026 shipped 47 customer-visible improvements. The three you'll feel most: workflow builder with parallel branches, GCC-ready tenant templates, and the Form 16 update for the new Finance Bill.
Read →HR leadership · Mar 2026
The new HR tech stack: one platform beats six
Why the era of best-of-breed HR is ending for mid-market companies — and what replaces it. The case for consolidation, backed by real numbers from our 450+ customers.
Read →HR leadership · Mar 2026
Why one-tool HR wins for teams between 200 and 5,000
Between 200 and 5,000 employees, consolidated HR becomes the right call. Before 200, SMB suites work; after 5,000, Workday makes sense. Here's why the middle belongs to integrated mid-market platforms.
Read →India compliance · Feb 2026
2026 PF changes explained: what HR needs to do before March
The 2026 Finance Bill introduces wage-ceiling revisions for PF, new e-challan formats, and UAN-linked KYC mandates. Your payroll system needs three changes — here's what they are.
Read →India compliance · Jan 2026
Form 16 filing guide: the end-of-year checklist every CFO wants
Seven things to verify before issuing Form 16 Part A and Part B. Miss these and you'll hear from the assessing officer — not from your employees.
Read →India compliance · Jan 2026
POSH Act: digital compliance that actually holds up in audit
The POSH Act requires documented processes, committee records, and annual reports. Most companies do the minimum. Here's what 'doing it right' looks like — and why it's table stakes for listed GCCs.
Read →India compliance · Jan 2026
India HR budgeting 2026: the three line items that move
Salary bill, benefits, HR tech. The first rarely surprises; the second and third will surprise more CFOs than usual this year. A budgeting guide for CHROs and HR controllers.
Read →Global HR · Dec 2025
Building a multi-country payroll strategy that survives 5 new geographies
The playbook we've watched succeed (and fail) across 40+ countries. Start with data model. Then compliance partners. Then currency. In that order.
Read →Global HR · Nov 2025
Remote-first org design: lessons from 3 years of distributed teams
Remote-first isn't about letting people work from home. It's about org design choices that make geography irrelevant to opportunity. Six principles, two of which contradict the 'return to office' narrative.
Read →Product · Nov 2025
Building multi-tenant SaaS on Azure: the architecture we chose
Schema-per-tenant vs shared-schema, data residency choices, SAS-token blob access — the architecture decisions behind PeopleVizio, from our CTO.
Read →Product · Oct 2025
Event-driven HRMS: how we keep the platform extensible without forks
Every lifecycle event in PeopleVizio fires an in-process Spring event. Notification engine, analytics projector, document generator all subscribe — and so can our customers. Here's how.
Read →HR leadership · Oct 2025
Hiring manager enablement: why your ATS matters less than your interview training
ATS tooling has commoditised. What separates great hiring orgs from mediocre ones is interviewer calibration and scorecard discipline. Two tactics that move the needle fast.
Read →Global HR · Sept 2025
UAE payroll and WPS: a ground-truth guide for Indian companies expanding
Wages Protection System, end-of-service gratuity, Ramadan calendar adjustments. A concrete playbook for the India HQ making its first UAE hire.
Read →HR leadership · Sept 2025
An HR helpdesk that actually deflects — with real CSAT, not vanity metrics
Deflection rate matters. But only if CSAT doesn't collapse. Here's how to measure both honestly — and how the best HR ops teams train their knowledge base.
Read →HR leadership · Aug 2025
Employee analytics ethics: the three lines your people data shouldn't cross
People analytics is powerful. It's also easy to misuse. The three lines our customers' data councils enforce — and why they're non-negotiable.
Read →Product · Aug 2025
What an 800-employee retail HRMS migration actually looks like
Stride Retail's 9-city rollout took 14 days. Here's how the migration ran — including the three pre-migration audits that made cutover drama-free.
Read →Product · Jul 2025
Learning and compliance done right: audit-proof training at 1,500 people
Axion GCC trains 1,500 employees on 23 mandatory courses per year. Zero audit findings in two consecutive quarters. Here's the operating model.
Read →HR leadership · Jun 2025
An expense system that finance actually approves of
Most expense tools optimise for employee convenience. The best ones also optimise for finance-team trust. The difference: policy enforcement at submission, not rejection.
Read →HR leadership · May 2025
Onboarding at day zero: what to automate, what to never automate
Automation works for provisioning, document collection, and scheduling. It fails for moments that shape belonging. The 70/30 split we recommend.
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