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The HR & OB Society FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD This issue of HRegatta attempts to gain insights and views of a multitude of stakeholders in the HR domain on various fields, especially pertaining to people analytics. This issue focuses primarily on People analytics as over the last few years, HR departments and businesses have become better at collecting data about people in order to assess and ascertain ways to ensure that the performance of employees is enhanced, employee satisfaction rates increase and better recruitment and selection process in lieu of the companies’ values and principles takes place. While more and more firms have started using people analytics as a tool to determine metric to not only ascertain and improve the happiness quotient, but also productivity, HR roles across the globe have started changing as data takes precedence over subjectivity. Recently, India slipped to 53 rd position in the Global Talent rankings, despite the various advancements and changing HR roles. It is necessary that proper training programs be put in place in order to cultivate a skilled and educated talent pool. As companies are rapidly changing, HR roles too need to need to ensure that they adapt quickly. In order to recover from the disruption caused by the frequent changes and to ensure move forward confidently, resilience and belief in the organization, its people and their capabilities is of utmost importance. In this era, which fosters a digitally drive and a technology enabled environment, HR professionals must ensure that the digital experience are aimed at enhancing the employee performance and the individual’s experience without impeding productivity. President Kislay Kishan Executive Members Aishwarya Chaurasia Malvika Adarsh Omkar Jadhav Vaibhav Mulchandey Associate Members Aditi Saini Moksha Chib Parisha Maniar Roopali Sharma We hope that this issue helps you delve deeper into the changing roles of HR and how people analytics is playing an important role in it. Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi 3