Brooks - A Payroll Specialist, Since 1999

  In the snazzy world of startups that offers better challenges, bigger growth opportunities and now, even a payment package to match the fat pockets of the big companies, traditional organisations are finding it hard to hold on to their talent.  What's worse the size of a traditional company often makes it difficult for the HR managers to keep a tab on the individualistic requirements, thus making it hard to plug disenchantment and .... It is in this environment that technology has come  to the aid of the organisations like HCL to not just retain the talent the companies worked hard to groom, but to also help employees reinvent themselves. HCL TechnologiesBSE -0.51 %, Global Head of People Practices, R Anand speaks to Economic Times.com about the changing times. ET: Have the challenges that a HR manager faces, changed over the years? What are some of key imperatives that an HR professional like you and HCL as a company need to stay ahead?  R Anand (...

Janaki Shantharam, founder of tech-enabled placement services firm Dexter Talent Labs in Bengaluru, is happy that Karnataka, under its startup policy, reimburses service tax paid by emerging companies.  She paid service tax last year but has been trying to figure how to get it reimbursed from the government. Many startup entrepreneurs like Shantharam are looking for clarifications to policy-related questions or assistance to overcome implementation hurdles, which a new state initiative should help resolve.  Karnataka's new information technology minister, Priyank Kharge, is giving the finishing touches to a programme that promises to address various problems that startups encounter, including ones such as the one before Shantharam.  Kharge is expected to announce the finer details of the programme in a couple of days. Startup entrepreneurs face a host of problems and the state government intends to address these through its proposed Startup Booster Kits, Kharg...