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October is the month HR calendars go from "manageable" to "why is everyone applying for leave on the same three days." 🥴 Here's your mini festival-season calendar, HR edition:
🎉 Oct 2, Fri — Gandhi Jayanti. Long weekend, nothing to plan.
Post a quick gratitude board on Slack before everyone logs off, one thing each person's thankful for this year.
A short reflection or "wins of the quarter" thread works well too, low effort, good energy before the break.
🪔 Oct 17–20 — Durga Puja, Navratri, Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami on Oct 20). Attendance dips early, especially East and North India. Flag WFH requests ahead.
A dandiya playlist during lunch hour, no dance floor required.
Dress-in-your-regional-best day, gets people talking and photos flowing without any real planning on your end.
💡 Heads up: Diwali's Nov 8. Lock in leave policy and bonus sign-offs this month.
Sorted your team's October? Good. Now here's us taking care of you. ✨
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🎉 The Big One: SpringVerify x Masters' Union HR Summit
Forget the usual 3-hour meetup format. This one's a full day.
TSOW is teaming up with SpringVerify and Masters' Union for an HR Summit in Gurugram, and it's already pulled in 570+ RSVPs.
What's on:
Keynote from Dr. Shalini Lal on the psychology of future-readiness
Panels on what HR practices actually travel across industries, and whether meritocracy can replace DEI
A live AI-verification demo
A debate on who gets the upside when AI doubles your productivity
A book launch, high tea, and a referral leaderboard with real prizes
📅 Saturday, October 10 · 10 AM – 5 PM
📍 Sector 20, Gurugram
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📍 TSOW HR Meetups
TSOW HR Meetup, Chandigarh
📍 In-Person Meetup · Sector 34, Chandigarh · 🗓️ October 10
Your city is perfectly planned, but the best conversations never are. Come find out.
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TSOW HR Meetup, Raipur
📍 In-Person Meetup · Raipur · 🗓️ October 10
Debates, a quiz, and Raipur's HR crowd, back for another round.
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TSOW HR Meetup, Chennai
📍 In-Person Meetup · Guindy, Chennai · 🗓️ October 11
Swap the filter coffee break for a room full of people who actually get your job.
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💻 Virtual
The Complexity Trap: Why HR Solutions Fail in Real Organizations
Oct 9, Fri · 3 PM IST
Rumi Bhattacharya on why HR solutions overcomplicate themselves into failure, and how to build ones that actually stick.
Register here →
Udai Pareek Webinar Series × NHRDN: Tracing HRD Across Four Decades
Oct 6, Tue · 3 – 4 PM IST
A conversation on Dr. Udai Pareek's ideas on HRD and institution-building, from corporate leadership to two decades in the classroom. Moderated by Kartik.
Register here →
Udai Pareek Webinar Series × NHRDN: Extension Motivation
Oct 14, Wed · 12 – 1 PM IST
Keith D'Souza, four decades across Pfizer, Wockhardt, DHL and more, on the one Udai Pareek idea he thinks HR keeps getting wrong: looking beyond the organizational frog pond.
Register here →
Listening that Moves Work Forward
Oct 16, Fri · 3 PM IST
Aakansha Patel on why most workplace conversations stay surface-level, and how to actually listen for context, not just words.
Register here →
That's October. Plan the holidays, hand out the mehendi kits, then come plan your next move with us.
See you out there,
Team TSOW
