Workforce & HR Management
40 Fun Friday Activities and Games for Office Teams
Fresh ideas, themed days, office games, weekly rituals and virtual games, plus a Fun Friday email format to copy.
Avani Joshi
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30 Team Building Games and 50 Icebreaker Questions for Work
Short games for meetings, shift changes and team days, and ready questions to open any session, with tips to keep it fair.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
12 HR Roles and Responsibilities, From Hiring to Exit
From workforce planning to full and final settlement: the HR tasks every business has, and the job titles that do them.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
25 Diwali Office Decoration Ideas for Every Budget
Torans, rangoli, LED diyas and lanterns: ideas to decorate the office, factory, shop or clinic for Diwali, with low-cost options and safety rules.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
12 Employee Retention Strategies That Work on a Small Budget
Most people leave a small business over small things. Twelve low-cost ways to keep good staff in a factory, shop, clinic or office.
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Rakshit Acharya is Head of Growth at Petpooja, where he has spent roughly four years moving from growth manager to running acquisition across the entire product suite. He owns the demand side of a company serving 1,50,000+ Indian businesses: paid campaigns across Google, Meta and LinkedIn, marketing automation, and the push into markets outside India. He also built the team that does it, hiring the performance marketers. That gives him a view most growth writing lacks he can see what a business owner searched, what they clicked, where they dropped off, and whether any of it turned into a paying customer. Outside Petpooja he ran a research project with GrowthX mapping how Indian founders and operators actually use AI at work, rather than how vendors claim they do. He writes about growth for people who have to justify a budget: what channels cost in India, what payback looks like, and which tactics survive contact with a real funnel.
Workforce & HR Management
30 Secret Santa Gift Ideas for the Office, Most Under ₹500
Useful, kind gifts for colleagues at three budgets, plus how to run a fair office gift swap that includes every shift.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Garden Leave Means Full Pay at Home Until Your Notice Ends
Garden leave lets you send a leaving employee home on full pay in India until the job ends. Stopping them working elsewhere after that cannot be enforced.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
6 Employee Background Verification Checks Before You Hire
Hiring someone, or being checked yourself? Here are the six background verification checks, what each one proves, and the data rules that apply from May 2027.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
People & Payroll
Relieving Letter vs Experience Letter: Definition and Difference
What each document is, and why only the experience letter can be demanded, and only from a larger employer. A relieving letter rests on company practice alone.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Why Accrued Leave Is Not the Same as Earned Leave
The phrase earned leave is in the labour code on safety and working conditions. Accrued leave is not. And earned leave belongs to two jobs most of your staff do not hold.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Top 5 Warning Letter to Employee Formats in Different Tones
Five warning letter formats, one per tone, ready to adapt, plus the path from warning to show cause to termination.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Notice Period Rules in India and What Actually Applies
Three instruments set the notice period rules in India, and only two of them are the Code. The third is the letter you wrote when the person joined.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
How to Set a Fixed Employee Code for Every Worker
Most employee codes break for the same reason: somebody asked them to describe a person as well as identify one. Here is a format that survives a transfer.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
How Half Day Leave Works, and What It Costs
Most guides treat half day leave as a fixed entitlement with fixed rules. It is not one. Here is what the codes actually settle, what your own policy has to, and how much money sits on the difference.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
What Replaced the Contract Labour Act, and What You Must Do
Repealed in November 2025, and what replaced it asks more of you, not less. Work that runs past 120 days stops being intermittent, the licence caps how many people a contractor may supply, and the welfare bill splits in a way few businesses have priced.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Code on Wages Rules 2026, and Who Must Follow Them
They bind one narrow group of employers and nobody else. But every state is now drafting from them, so the eight-hour day, the ten-day ceiling and the Form V payslip are worth reading whoever you are.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Probation Period Rules in India, and the New Six-Month Term
Probation has a stated length again: six months, extendable by three, from 8 May 2026. Who that binds, who still writes their own number, and why PF and ESI never paused for probation at all.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
What Actually Binds: Letter of Intent vs Offer Letter
A letter of intent states an intention. An offer letter is a proposal. Neither creates a contract by itself, and the Contract Act fixes a hard deadline after which you can no longer pull an offer back.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
How to Prepare a Leave Policy Format After the 2025 Update
The qualifying period for earned leave fell from 240 days to 180 on 21 November 2025. What every section of a leave policy has to say now, and the refused-leave rule that has no cap at all.
Ashwiniba Vaghela
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
6 Factories Act Rules Employers Must Follow Now
For HR and plant managers: the six rules that bind a factory employer now that the 1948 Act has gone, including the headcount change that decides whether your unit still counts as a factory at all.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
6 Appointment Letter Formats You Can Copy
The offer letter is the invitation. This one carries the full terms, and since November 2025 it is compulsory. The eight items every version carries, and the clause that changes for six kinds of hire.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Sick Leave in India: Why There Is No Single Rule
No central law sets it, one large state dropped it from its Act, and ESI pays cash rather than days. What applies where, and what your own rules have to cover.
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Nearby Offers in Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll)
Your employees open the Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) app to mark attendance or check their pay slip. While they’re there, they spot a 20% off deal at a restaurant two streets away. They tap it, grab lunch at a discount, and walk back feeling like the company just gave them a perk. That’s the Nearby
Avani Joshi
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Bulk Add Employees in Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll)
Twenty new joiners, twenty trips through the same form. A spreadsheet does that job once.
Devanshu Agnihotri
HR & Payroll Experts
Workforce & HR Management
Add a New Employee in Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll)
Introduction If you’ve ever onboarded a new employee manually, you know it’s not fun.There are forms to fill, IDs to verify, and bank details to double-check. Even a small mistake in a PAN or IFSC number can delay salary processing or compliance filings. That’s where Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) steps in.It transforms the entire onboarding
Devanshu Agnihotri
HR & Payroll Experts