Four jurisdictions moved the goalposts on hiring this quarter. The Singapore Workplace Fairness Act is the one that changes how you write a job ad. Meanwhile, the UK locked in…
Workplace incidents can occur in any organization whether it is a safety issue, employee misconduct, workplace conflict, or operational disruption. When such events occur, proper documentation becomes critical. This is…
Three stories this week point at the same gap. The money and the mandate for agentic AI are arriving faster than the readiness to use it. India's tech services AI…
July 1 is Australia's compliance new year, and this one is heavy. Australia parental leave super is now real. The government will pay 12% super on top of Parental Leave…
Here is the number that matters this week. The price of running a near-frontier AI model just fell. It is now $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million…
July 1 resets the compliance clock in half the countries you hire in. Before it does, India locked one number in place. The India EPFO wage ceiling stays at Rs…
AI News Digest, June 30: The $206 Billion Bet on Agents That Still Flunk the Job Here is the tension this week. AI agent software spending is about to jump…
Quick answer: The best Employer of Record (EOR) for startups is Asanify for founders looking for an AI-native platform with startup-friendly pricing, built-in HRMS, and fast global hiring. Asanify combines…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 29: July 1 Wage Rises Hit Australia, the US and the Netherlands July 1 is a hard deadline this year, not a soft one. The…
India foundation model funding just crossed a line that matters. A homegrown lab raised a war chest big enough to train a frontier model. And most of the money came…
EOR & Compliance Digest, June 28: Singapore CPF Platform Workers, EU Pay Gaps, and a Big July 1 If you pay anyone through a gig platform in Singapore, this one…
Editor's Note This week, AI tools kept showing up in places people assumed were off-limits. A studio known for hand-made cinema took money to build AI filmmaking tools. India scrambled…
If you employ anyone in California, France, or Singapore, July 1 is the date to circle. The California healthcare minimum wage steps up again. France just reset the salary floors…
The AI money moved in two directions this week, and the gap tells you something. On one side, private inference compute funding hit a record, as a single platform raised…
Quick Answer Salaried employees in India save tax mainly under the old regime through the ₹50,000 standard deduction, Section 80C investments (up to ₹1.5 lakh) covering PPF, EPF, ELSS, and…
Quick Answer Outsourcing to India means contracting work such as software development, customer support, finance, or back-office processes to Indian vendors or teams, usually at a meaningful cost saving versus…
UK Senior Manager Liability Goes Live June 29 If you run a distributed team with anyone in Britain, this week matters. UK senior manager liability becomes real on June 29,…
Quick Answer Employee classification decides whether a worker is legally an employee or an independent contractor, which determines payroll tax, statutory benefits, termination rights, and IP ownership. In India, authorities…
The Workforce Data Cutting Against the AI Job Panic All week the headlines read like a countdown to mass unemployment. One enterprise software giant confirmed 21,000 job cuts and pinned…
Quick Answer Employee benefits in India fall into two groups: statutory benefits that employers must provide by law, and voluntary benefits offered to attract and retain talent. The mandatory ones…