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Cost to Company

The Ken

Hear how your workplace is changing. Before you hear it on Slack. In this new weekly podcast, get answers to the biggest questions about how modern Indian workplaces are changing, often even before they become popular questions to ask. Sneha Vakharia, Shreevar Chhotaria, and Akshaya Chandrasekaran, take turns week by week with a fresh new story, fresh new voices, and a fresh take on the Indian workplace

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Cost to Company - The Cult of Notion

The Cult of Notion

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08/22/22 • 25 min

Google docs has satisfied customers. Evernote has happy users. Jira has grateful managers.

But Notion has Notion Nation. It has evangelists, Notion certified Ambassadors, Notion certified badges and Notion certified Champions. It has a subreddit with 220 thousand subscribers, groups in 32 different counties, on Telegram, Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and Discord. The India chapter of notion has its own logo. Which is the N of Notion with the Ashoka Chakra behind it.

We welcome you to the Cult of Notion.

You can find Ibrahim’s Notion document about the Cult of Notion here.

You can check out Notion India’s Telegram page here.

You can see minutes of India’s first Notion meetup in Hyderabad here.
You can see Neerja’s Notion page here and Shashwat’s Notion page here.

If you like our podcast, or have thoughts, feelings or story ideas, write to us at [email protected]. Or share, retweet, and follow @thekenweb.

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Cost to Company - Businesses are Going to Therapy to Find Themselves
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10/18/22 • 30 min

CEOs, executives and business leaders have discovered therapy as a weapon to build better products. There are now therapists who are specialised in working with founders and business leaders. There are now therapists stepping into roles that would have been otherwise led by HR.

This is therapy not just as a health care benefit. This is therapy to build better businesses. This is therapy as a strategy tool to get more out of their employees. To hit goals faster, better, and with less collateral damage.

In this episode of Cost to Company, we talk to Piyush Shah, co-founder of the InMobi Group, about how therapy helped him and other business leaders “unlock” their ambitions, and build better teams. We also talk to Veena Sethuraman, VP, Learning & Organisational Development at InMobi on how this journey transpired. And we talk to Aakriti Joanna, founder and CEO of Kaha Mind, and Esha Pahuja Verma of Trijog, about how demand for these services have skyrocketed in the last two years.

If you have thoughts, opinions and episode ideas, become a part of the podcast by writing in to us in the form here.

If you’d like to pass on the gift of knowledge this Diwali, check out The Ken’s diwali gifting options here.

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Cost to Company - What Really Goes On At The Founder's Office?
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10/31/22 • 34 min

The roots of the founder’s office may lie in bureaucracy, but the allure of it has managed to seep into the world of business.

Almost suddenly, the smartest and brightest minds from some of the country’s top B-schools are embracing a whole new kind of an obscure yet attractive career track. ‘Thoroughbred Generalists’ (as one of our guests describes himself), are quickly picking up roles at the Founder’s Office.

What do people at the founder’s office even do? What are the problems that they solve? What are the problems that they go through?

And fundamentally, what really goes on at the founder’s office?

We speak to Ramya S, former Chief of Staff at Ola and Founder’s Office at Myntra; Adwate Kumar, former Founder’s Office at CoinDCX and Klub; Jayesh Bhatia, Founder’s Office at Ditto Insurance, and Avichal Pugalia, Chief of Staff at Foxtale, to go to the depths of this little-known function of the org.

As it turns out, it’s a little bit of everything. And a whole lot of nothing.

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Hosted, Written, & Produced by Shreevar Chhotaria

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Cost to Company - The new 'hot' sectors for tech talent
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06/19/23 • 28 min

If you ask any tech employee about their dream company to work at, it’s usually a Microsoft or a Google or a cool startup. Nobody aspires to work at a healthcare company or a bank, really. It’s where you end up. Not choose. At least that’s the perception all around.

But what if I tell you, you’ve been looking at the talent market all wrong? That the cold sectors of yesterday — manufacturing, BFSI, FMCG companies, and so on — are the hot sectors of today. Companies, across sectors, want to be tech companies. Or at least, tech-presenting companies, to stay ahead of the curve.

Traditional firms with sound fundamentals are now paying better salaries for tech talent and doing interesting and meaningful work. And most importantly — they are offering stability in a very volatile jobs market.

This episode was written and hosted by Akshaya Chandrasekaran, produced by Anushka Mukherjee, and engineered by Rajiv CN.

Cost to Company is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscribers-only business news platform.

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Cost to Company - The Biggest Hiring Trend in 2023? Skill-Shifting.
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01/02/23 • 26 min

For the past 19 episodes, we at CTC have spoken about hiring in many shapes and forms. But what do the numbers tell us? And more importantly, what do the numbers hide?

To kick things off this year, we spoke to Ruchee Anand, Senior Director of Talent Solutions at LinkedIn, who shared some data-driven insights around hiring in 2023.

Why are some women leaders going the self-hiring way? What is 'The Great Mismatch'? Talent pools are getting bigger, but is that really a good thing?

Listen in to find out.

Hosted, Written, and Produced by Shreevar Chhotaria

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Cost to Company - Is your business at war?
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05/01/23 • 38 min

This week your host Sneha will take you inside businesses at war, through the voices of those fighting in the trenches. We’ll hear how the same war — the war against inflation, a funding winter and shrinking markets — is being fought differently in different businesses. We’ll see how war sharpens, and sometimes disfigures, a business. We’ll see what is martyred and what is protected.

This is what a business fighting for survival looks like.

Tell us, is your business fighting for survival?

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For months and months now, there’s a word that’s been whispered among recruiters, founders, CXOs, and executives who are hiring for key positions in their companies.

It’s a word used to describe a cohort of professionals whose salaries are out of sync with the reality of the market. It’s a word that is used for people who work in product management, engineering, marketing, and even cross-functional roles.

Meet the “unhireables”. They live among us. They work in our offices. Walking around like regular people. They don’t see that their careers are paralysed. Some of them are actively seeking jobs, but their interviews end abruptly once they inform the recruiter of their current compensation. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re unhireable.

Between 2020 and 2022, investors pumped billions of dollars into startups whose founders and leaders offered up the mythical “hypergrowth” narrative. Those startups, in turn, pumped money to hire and grow a layer of mid-level and senior-level executives whose job was to deliver on that hypergrowth narrative.

And salaries went through the roof. Hikes of 50% and above were par for the course.

Cut to the present.

If overvalued startups are widely recognised as a problem, can overvalued employees escape the same fate?

This episode was written, hosted, and produced by Akshaya Chandrasekaran with audio engineering by Rajiv CN and creative inputs from Anushka Mukherjee and Snigdha Sharma.

Listen to how Apple is building an army of ‘faithfuls’ in one of the most price-sensitive markets in the world, on Daybreak, a business podcast by The Ken.

Cost to Company is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, analytical business stories.

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Cost to Company - Who Gets Laid Off First?
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08/15/22 • 20 min

It was the day of Wasim’s engagement. He was wearing his favourite kurta for the big occasion. It was the first time, in many days, that he was genuinely happy.

Just then, he gets a call from Byju’s HR team:

We regret to inform you that your employment with Byju’s has been terminated.

If 2021 saw the high of the VC influx, Bored Ape NFT projects, and salary hikes; 2022 is going through a slowdown, a crypto winter, and thousands of job losses.

Who bears the brunt of a global meltdown? Who will survive this winter that’s been around for far too long now? Why do layoffs even happen in the first place? Which companies have to let their valuations slip and let their employees go?

And within these companies, who gets laid off first?

In episode 2 of Cost to Company, we explore these questions as we speak to founders, HR mavericks, career counsellors, and most importantly: people who’ve been laid off.

The answers aren’t easy, but the perspectives are worth listening to.

If you like our podcast, or have thoughts, feelings or story ideas, write to us at [email protected].

Or share, retweet, and follow @thekenweb.

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Cost to Company - Your Salary is Not Private
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08/08/22 • 39 min

On Feb 11th of this year Subhash Chaudhury, CTO and founder of Dukaan, posted the salaries of nine new hires. That tweet went viral. The very next day, the CTO of Chingari, also posted salaries of six new hires. This tweet also went viral.

Salaries are the one part of our jobs shrouded in secrecy. We know, without anyone specifically ever telling us, that they are not to be ordinarily shared with our colleagues. We don’t want to be impolite. And businesses like paying as little as they need to.

And here you have two businessmen, breaking that cardinal rule.

In this, our pilot episode of Cost to Company, we will explore why these tweets were posted, and what happens when you break this cardinal rule of business.

We will see what this experiment - the publishing of a salary - does to a business. Does it make salaries more fair and equitable? And is the relationship between employee and employer — bound by goodwill and a confidential fiduciary contract — changed for good?

If you like our podcast, or have thoughts, feelings or story ideas, write to us at [email protected]. Or share, retweet, and follow @thekenweb.

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There is a gap between what young people want from their careers and what they get. We’ve spent months trying to understand this white space, and we've distilled our learnings into a brand new careers podcast from the newsroom of The Ken!

The first two years of our careers are hard. They are exciting and full of possibilities, but also frustrating and anxiety-inducing.

Every interaction, every assignment, and every initiative seems to hold promise and uncertainty in equal measure.

Do you have to love your job? Must your colleagues also be your friends? Is it okay to feel restless after just six months? Did your boss offer you feedback or criticism, and does the difference matter? Is it okay to be seen as ambitious? Can finding a great mentor help you grow faster? And just what is the right level of cool to wear to work?

Perhaps you were lucky enough to land your “dream job” during placements, but the reality of any job can be daunting even in the best of times.

No wonder a large majority of graduates end up quitting their first jobs in the very first year or two.

You’d think companies would pay the same level of attention to welcoming, nurturing, and mentoring their young first-time employees as they did to hiring them on campus. (They’re busy with other things).

The First Two Years is a new early careers podcast from The Ken, hosted by Akshaya Chandrasekaran. Think of it as a friend that will ask—and answer—the most important and interesting questions about learning to succeed at work.

Sure, you will hear accounts of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph from young professionals in their early 20s. But we also promise you that right mix of humour, awkwardness, wit, and cool that is equally important.

You can call us TFTY. Follow us on Spotify and Apple to get notified when our first episode drops – trust us, you don’t want to miss us.

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How many episodes does Cost to Company have?

Cost to Company currently has 53 episodes available.

What topics does Cost to Company cover?

The podcast is about Podcasts, Business and Careers.

What is the most popular episode on Cost to Company?

The episode title 'The Cult of Notion' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Cost to Company?

The average episode length on Cost to Company is 29 minutes.

How often are episodes of Cost to Company released?

Episodes of Cost to Company are typically released every 7 days.

When was the first episode of Cost to Company?

The first episode of Cost to Company was released on Aug 8, 2022.

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