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They’re okay to take a 40 percent men, but they’re not okay to take an 80 percent woman.Why do women get called better leaders and then get passed over for leadership? Ritika Singh, CEO and Co-founder of Kontent Factory and Co-founder of Pink Policy Dialogues, has spent a career inside boardrooms, policy forums and industry bodies watching it happen.In Episode 4 of HR Talks (formerly Human in the Loop), “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Invisible Barriers Women Face at Work,” host Bakshin Kaur asks her where those barriers actually live. Her answer: not in policy. In the fact that “women are constantly on guard” in every workplace, because “everything somehow will always boil down to the woman being at fault somewhere.” In the hundred tasks a woman is handed “to constantly prove herself every day,” when the men around her say they “make better leaders, better employees,” and then, at the leadership table, “suddenly nobody’s good enough.” In the double bind: “If you’re doing something for the family, you don’t really care about your job. If you’re too focused on the job, you don’t really care about your family.” Her conclusion: “Till you become 100 percent woman, there’s no leadership position coming for you, and it always comes at a cost.”We talk about why girls are raised to “shrink and take up less space” and then expected to lead, why “the boys have a bro code and there’s no girl code,” why the gender pay gap is “not about skill set” but about who has the liberty to give 100 percent.She also takes the employer’s chair on the interview question everyone hates. She doesn’t ask about marriage or children. She asks about the support system at home, because “it’s not about you per se, it’s the kind of support you have,” and she’s blunt that for an employer, that’s a cost question.And the three things she’d change about the Indian workplace: a gender-sensitized leader at the top, an end to the artificial scarcity that pits women against each other, and offices designed for bodies other than a man’s.Follow Ms. Ritika Singh here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritikasingh75/About HR TalksHR Talks (formerly Human in the Loop) is a podcast by TankhaPay where we sit down with CHROs, founders and industry leaders to figure out what technology is really doing to the way we work, and what stays human no matter what changes.About TankhaPayTankhaPay is an AI-powered HR, payroll, and compliance platform built on Akal Information Systems’ 26-year foundation, trusted by 1,000+ Indian businesses and over 2 million employees.

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“Everything before this was a tool to help the brain. This is a replacement for the brain.”Can software replace the judgment of a trained accountant?Ishi Singh, Founder and CEO of Vibebooks and Counto, has spent a decade and three companies betting that it can, after a Google job that “felt empty,” a midlife reunion in Ibiza, and what he calls “one accident after another.”In Episode 3 of HR Talks (formerly Human in the Loop), “When the Machine Makes the Call: What’s Left for the Humans?”, we make him defend that bet, and he doesn’t flinch. “Any back-office work is just seeing. That kind of work, absolutely, 100 percent, will get fully automated.” His own accountants now handle 100 to 150 sets of books instead of 20 to 30, because he no longer wants them doing accounting. He wants “accountants who think like workflow designers.”We talk about why “experience has been largely overrated” when a model has been trained on the world’s knowledge, why it isn’t the junior developer who is running out of a job but “the average developer,” why he was late on payroll for years and still kept 95 percent of his people, and why the shock will hit India and the Philippines first, because the work that gets outsourced is the work that moves to machines first.We ask him the one decision he’d never hand to a machine:“I’m yet to discover the line.”So what’s left for the humans? Context, informed by every sense a machine doesn’t have. “EQ becomes much more valued when IQ becomes commoditized.” And regulators still need a human to sign off on the books, so “that piece on where the liability lies is always going to be with some human.”His advice for anyone worried about their job: “Be an optimist. If you think about saving your business, you will end up losing it.” Then rapid fire: the job he’d automate without guilt, the one he hopes never gets automated, and ten years out, more accountants or fewer.The machine can make the call. What’s left is deciding which calls it should make.Follow Mr. Ishi Singh here: / ishi-singh-ab53b22About HR TalksHR Talks (formerly Human in the Loop) is a podcast by TankhaPay where we sit down with CHROs, founders and industry leaders to figure out what technology is really doing to the way we work, and what stays human no matter what changes.About TankhaPayTankhaPay is an AI-powered HR, payroll, and compliance platform built on Akal Information Systems’ 26-year foundation, trusted by 1,000+ Indian businesses and over 2 million employees.

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Can India build EVs faster than it can build the people to run them?

In Episode 2 of HR Talks, earlier Human in the Loop, we sit down with Nitin Khindria, Group CHRO of Omega Seiki Mobility, to explore the human side of India’s rapidly evolving EV industry.

Nitin brings a perspective shaped by years of working across HR, capability building and the automotive ecosystem. He explains why the biggest challenge for EV may not be technology or capital, but whether human capability can keep pace with machine capability.

We talk about why hiring talent is easy, but building talent is difficult, why EV workers need to be adaptable and willing to unlearn and relearn, and why simply having automotive experience may not be enough for tomorrow’s EV industry.

We also get into AI, where Nitin makes a simple point:

“AI is just a tool. You need domain expertise.”

Because as technology gets smarter, the human ability to understand, adapt, learn and apply that technology becomes even more important.Follow Mr. Nitin Khindria here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin14/About HR Talks (Human in the loop)HR talks is a podcast by TankhaPay where we sit down with CHROs, founders and industry leaders to figure out what technology is really doing to the way we work, and what stays human no matter what changes.About TankhaPayTankhaPay is an AI-powered HR, payroll, and compliance platform built on Akal Information Systems' 26-year foundation, trusted by 1,000+ Indian businesses and over 2 million employees. Learn more at TankhaPay

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In the first episode of HR Talks, earlier Human in the Loop, we sit down with Mr. Sarabjit Singh, Managing Director of Akal Information Systems, to talk about the real role of AI in HR.With 26 years in the industry and AI already running inside his own company, Sarabjit breaks down why he calls AI a catalyst and not a tool, why HR is the custodian of the human story, and why a machine that cannot feel should never run your most sensitive process alone. He explains the one thing AI can never copy, why a biased process handed to AI becomes dangerous at scale, and where AI genuinely wins in the messy world of Indian payroll and compliance.He also makes a bold case for the future. That AI-enabled HR is coming, and the CHROs who learn to lead the human story on top of it could become the CEOs of tomorrow.Follow Mr. Sarabjit Singh here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarabdel/About HR TalksHR talks, earlier Human in the Loop is a podcast by TankhaPay where we sit down with CHROs, founders and industry leaders to figure out what technology is really doing to the way we work, and what stays human no matter what changes.About TankhaPayTankhaPay is an AI powered HRMS, payroll and compliance platform built on the 26 year foundation of Akal Information Systems, trusted by 1,000+ Indian businesses and over 2 million employees. Learn more at TankhaPay

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