The Indian HRM Blog
Practical guides for HR managers, founders, and finance leads at Indian SMEs. We write about the day-to-day questions that come up when you're running payroll for 30 people, deciding whether to switch from greytHR, or trying to figure out the right gratuity formula for an exiting employee. No theory papers, no "in today's fast-paced world" intros.
What You'll Find Here
Most posts answer one specific question end-to-end: how to compute gratuity for an employee who's worked 4 years and 7 months, what's the difference between LWF and ESI, how to set up a PT registration in Karnataka. Each post links to the worksheet or template you can copy. Where there's a calculator on the site that does the math automatically, we point at it instead of making you redo it by hand.
Topics We Cover
Payroll & statutory compliance. PF, ESI, TDS, Professional Tax, gratuity, statutory bonus, LWF, minimum wages. Updates when the union budget or a state revises slabs. Form 16 and Form 24Q walkthroughs.
Attendance & leave. Designing a leave policy that doesn't break in March, GPS attendance for field staff, comp-off rules, holiday calendar setup, biometric integration with Suprema, eSSL, and Realtime devices.
Hiring & onboarding. Job description templates that don't sound like templates, interview score-cards, offer letter automation, the 30-60-90 day onboarding rhythm.
Performance management. Running a half-yearly review without 80 hours of paperwork, OKR vs KPI for Indian teams, calibration sessions that actually calibrate.
HR strategy for SMEs. When to hire your first HRBP, building a compensation philosophy, handling exit interviews honestly.
Comparison & switching guides. Honest takes on Keka, greytHR, Zoho People, Darwinbox, and SAP SuccessFactors for Indian businesses, including when one of them is the right answer instead of us.
Who Writes the Posts
The Indian HRM editorial team and guest contributors who've actually run HR or payroll. Every post has a named author, a publish date, and a "last updated" stamp. When laws change, we revise the post and bump the date. We don't ghost-publish or AI-fill articles to game search rankings.
Free Calculators & Templates
Most posts come with a downloadable Excel template or a pointer to one of the on-site calculators: take-home salary, gratuity, PF, HRA exemption, TDS projection. All free, no email gate.
Subscribe
One email a fortnight. New posts, calculator updates, and short notes when something material changes in payroll or labour law. We don't spam, we don't sell the list, and unsubscribe is one click in every email.