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🆕 Presenting Plum Perks — our comprehensive suite of healthcare and wellness benefits that money can't buy.* ✨ 5 categories — Nutrition, self-care, health, fitness, and family care. 🤝 50+ partners, including The Whole Truth Foods, PharmEasy, Lenskart.com, Clove Dental, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Cosmix, Nua, Foxtale, and more. 💰 ₹30,000 in annual healthcare savings per user. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/g_2uU-Kk *Exclusive for Plum users. If you'd like to access Perks, tag your HR in the comments.

[long-ish post] Early in your career, and not sure what you want from it? Deepak Gopalakrishnan has a framework you might find useful — he calls it connecting the dots. He believes you should spend your 20s blindly collecting dots, and use your 30s connecting them. But what are dots? Any new experience, interaction, or piece of content you consume - which might be useful later - is a dot. For example, attending a heavy metal concert could result in four separate dots, and four different trains of thought. (Refer to attached photo.) Why is this activity useful? 🧠 It's good for the brain — new experiences lead to fired-up neurons and new connections.  📈 It helps you in your life — whether it’s just a dopamine kick out of eking out your new insight, or a more significant professional one, having a rich, diverse base of dots will have benefits later.  🕶 It makes you interesting — Ashok Krish went from humour blogger to meme-maker to innovative musician to bestselling author to food influence to board game designer… all while having a full-time senior job at a major technology company. How do you collect dots?  ⚫ Do interesting things — You may never do it again, but you’ve tried it, learnt a little bit more about yourself, have stories to tell, and have an interesting opinion that might impress your hiring manager (or date).  ⚫ Reflect on what you did — For some folks, journaling helps, for some using tools like Notion and Roam Research does. For others, including the writer of this post, it’s just a lot of thinking, and giving the brain space to breathe. Read Deepak's article here: https://lnkd.in/dQuvwb9Y P.S. Most of our marketing campaigns are a result of collecting dots. 🔖 The Starter Guide exists because Siddharth was moving cities.  🎴 Cards Against Work was an idea that hit Ganapathi in the middle of a mildly boring dinner party.  🎙 ASMR with Plum came from Diganth's doomscrolling on YouTube. If you're someone who does the same thing? Hit Shreyas up, we're #hiring at marketing.

🗣 Saurabh Arora: "We're building a Salesforce-like solution for employee benefits workflows." What that means 👇 You could be: 🌱 a five-member team working on sheets 🪴 a growing company with payroll tools and HRIS 🌳 an enterprise with custom implementations and employee records Bring your workflows to us, and we'll build your health benefits stack around it. Watch the full conversation on the Forbes India Startup Friday podcast, hosted by Harichandan Arakali: https://lnkd.in/dsshksr6

The Starter Guide to India: 5 editions. 100+ shoutouts. 1 account suspension on Twitter. In Edition 11 of The Plum Jam, Aishwarya looks back at what we built over the last few months, referencing an exchange between Shreyas and Udayan in the process. Also includes: The Humanise book, and a sneak peek into our upcoming product feature. Read, share, subscribe, hydrate.

🗣 "This is a team brought together by a vision of impacting the health and wellbeing of every Indian. And when you imbibe this vision closely, you will go out of your way to help." Abhishek and Saurabh spent an hour with Harichandan Arakali on the Forbes India Startup Friday podcast, discussing their vision for Plum, and how it unites everyone on the team. Watch: https://lnkd.in/dsshksr6

On this sleepy Saturday afternoon, if you're at the cusp of a major career decision, but afraid of the unknown, remember that Pareen Lathia quit at the peak of his career not once, not twice, but thrice — only to come out of it stronger, wiser, and happier every time. Read: https://lnkd.in/gKmiDbsH

For Darwinbox, partnering with Plum was a matter of 'natural selection.' In their third year with Plum, Darwinbox has had nearly zero escalations over the last annual policy period — a far cry from their previous experience.  We recently spoke with Shravan Kumar Dullur and Narane Gundabathula about their health benefits, the benefits of a tech-first experience, and their approach to healthcare that put them in the 2% Club. ▶▶▶ Swipe for the overview, click for the longer read: https://lnkd.in/g-Npp4vf

🟢 One of the top employer brands in the country, Postman's approach to people and culture is built on two pillars: data and principles. Join us on July 10th at 5 PM as Abhishek Poddar chats with Monika Gunalan, Postman's Head of People Ops (APAC), about their approach to talent, culture, and policy. Through our conversation, Monika will talk about: 👤 The ideal employee profile at Postman.  📈 Postman’s relationship with data and how does it influences everything they do, from retention to benefits.  🔬 Data-driven checks and balances to mitigate biases in the workplace. Register, and stay tuned until the very end to see Monika make a pitch to folks considering working at Postman. Got any questions for Monika? Drop them in the comments.

Ushur-ing good health. ✨ Scenes from our latest Health Mela at Ushur, hosted across four zones — screening (for vitals), ageing (for dental and vision), fitness (for endurance and mobility), and relaxation (for wellbeing and massages). 🤔 What is the Plum health mela? Read Jahnavi Koganti's blog: https://lnkd.in/gFwUrBsu Want us to host one at your company? Tag your people success leader in the comments.

Some of the many questions we'll be asking Monika Gunalan tomorrow on our LinkedIn Live. 🔬 What have been the foundational principles of Postman's employer brand, and how have they evolved over the years? 📈 How is data ingrained into everything that the people team do — across hiring, culture, engagement, and retention? 🤔 How do Postman make decisions in areas where the data doesn't tell the complete story, especially when it comes to themes like diversity and health? Have a question you'd like to ask? Drop it in the comments, or ask her live at 5pm on Wednesday: https://lnkd.in/gWNjDNWj #hr #hrinsights #employeebenefits #employeehealth #peopleprocesses #culture #data