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Mamta Sharma

Mamta Sharma

Mamta Sharma is a freelance journalist and Consulting Editor at Business Today, with over 18 years of experience covering the evolving world of work. Her reporting focuses on HR trends, talent management, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (D...

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The experience of companies recognised as India’s Best Workplaces for Women suggests that workplace design can make a difference. (AI generated image)

The first promotion trap: Why women disappear from India’s leadership pipeline

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 23, 2026

Women’s representation drops 12 percentage points at the first managerial rung, with the sharpest decline coming as career progression intersects with caregiving and other life-stage demands.

The role of English varies sharply by career stage and function. At the entry level, it remains an important filter in campus recruitment and initial screening.

BT Big Story: Why India Inc is warming up to non-English-speaking executives

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 23, 2026

As India’s talent pool expands beyond English-speaking urban centres, a larger question is emerging: should fluency in English remain an informal filter for leadership potential?

India’s engineering talent market is facing an experience mismatch

Engineering hiring skips freshers as jobs shift beyond IT

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 15, 2026

With 67% of engineering jobs now outside IT, Software & Services and GCCs, India’s engineering opportunity is widening but freshers face a tougher entry-level market, according to Foundit

Bengaluru leads among Indian metros, with 41.1% women’s representation, while Delhi-NCR trails at 28.5%.

From 20% to 16.7%: What’s behind the setback for women leaders in India Inc?

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 10, 2026

As US companies scale back DEI efforts, women’s share of corporate executive roles at India’s Best Companies falls to 16.7% from 20%, putting the spotlight on whether India Inc is losing momentum on w...

Variable pay is increasingly being used to connect leadership rewards with business performance

Variable pay is no longer enough: Here’s what India’s executive leaders want to stay

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 9, 2026

With 88% of senior executives receiving variable compensation, benefits, flexibility and career opportunities are becoming increasingly important to winning and retaining leadership talent, according ...

IT services companies are ramping up AI-focused training

AI job shift: Agentic AI engineers emerge as the hottest tech hire, demand up 260%

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 8, 2026

AI could handle up to 70% of ticket resolution and reporting work, and 65% of test-case creation, pushing companies to rethink roles and reskill talent, according to CIEL HR.

India scores 58 out of 100 on Indeed’s inaugural Hiring Confidence Index.

54% of Indian jobseekers say skills tests are fairer than resumes: Indeed

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 4, 2026

Gen Z is even more likely to favour skills-based assessments, signalling growing demand for hiring processes that judge what candidates can do rather than what their CVs say.

Some 78% of Indian AI users say AI enables them to do work that was not possible a year ago, compared with 58% globally.

From AI pilots to everyday work: What are India’s IT giants doing differently?

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 4, 2026

More than 400,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats across Infosys, TCS, Wipro and LTM show how AI is moving beyond experimentation into everyday workflows, from reporting and research to HR, learning and m...

Who is the 'Frontier Professional'? Meet the New AI worker and why India is leading the way

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 3, 2026

1 in 3 Indian AI users is now working with AI agents on multi-step tasks, twice the global average, putting human judgment, quality control and critical thinking at the centre of the AI workplace, fin...

AI anxiety is rising across Indian workplaces. Employers have a new problem

83% of Gen Z professionals are afraid to network. It could be costing them jobs

by Mamta Sharma |Sep 2, 2026

An inside connection can make Indian job seekers nearly 8.5x more likely to get hired, yet Gen Z is holding back from networking for fear of judgment, bothering people and sounding inauthentic.