Mannu Matta
Founder, Engage HRMS
Mannu Matta is the founder of Engage HRMS, a cloud HRMS and payroll platform used by Indian employers to run payroll, attendance, leave, and statutory filings.
He writes and reviews the payroll and compliance references on this site — Professional Tax, Labour Welfare Fund, ESI, TDS on salary, gratuity, and leave encashment — working from the governing Acts and the state notifications that set the rates, and updating each page when those notifications change.
Stories by Mannu Matta
Salary Allowances in India 2026: HRA, DA, Medical, LTA
Most articles about salary allowances are describing a tax regime that almost nobody is on, using section numbers that no longer exist, and quoting two exemptions that were abolished in 2018...
Flexible Benefit Plan (FBP) India 2026
The flexible benefit plan was designed for a tax regime most employees have since left. For four years the honest answer to "should we run an FBP?" was that it delivered...
ESI Calculation 2026: Contribution Rates and Payroll Rules
The rates in an ESI calculation are the easy part and almost nobody gets them wrong. What payroll teams get wrong is everything around them: which wages the..
Payroll Compliance Checklist India 2026
Most payroll compliance checklists you will find are lists of deadlines. They are useful for about a month, until you have memorised them, and then they stop..
Income Tax on Salary FY 2026-27: Old vs New Regime
Two things changed for FY 2026-27 that most payroll teams have not adjusted for, and neither of them is a slab. The first is that TDS on salary..
CTC Breakup in India 2026
The number on an Indian offer letter is not a salary. It is an accounting total that includes money the employee will never see in a bank account, money they..
Payslip Format in India 2026: Form V and Every Mandatory Component
A payslip is not a courtesy. Issuing one is a statutory obligation on every employer in India, for every employee, in every pay period, and since 21 November 2025 the obligation sits in the Code on Wages..
Gratuity Calculation in India 2026: Rules, Formula and Examples
Gratuity is the one payment in Indian employment that almost everybody calculates wrongly, and the error is nearly always in the same place. It is not in the formula, which is four numbers and a division. It is..
Best Attendance Management Software in India 2026: Top 10 Compared
Every list of the best attendance management software in India is published by a company that sells attendance management software, and every one of them puts itself first. This one does too..
Cloud-Based Attendance Software for Distributed Teams
Cloud-based attendance software is usually sold as the same product as the on-premise one, hosted somewhere else. That framing is why so many deployments disappoint...
Biometric Attendance System: A Complete Buyer's Guide 2026
Almost every biometric attendance evaluation runs the same way. Somebody collects quotes for three devices, compares the sensor specifications and the price, picks one, and installs it...
Attendance Compliance in India: What the Labour Codes Changed (2026)
Most attendance compliance advice written for Indian employers is now describing a law that no longer exists. The Factories Act, 1948 was repealed..
Recruitment Analytics Every HR Manager Should Monitor
Most recruitment dashboards report activity. Applications received, profiles screened, interviews scheduled, offers rolled. It looks like measurement, and every number on it is true..
Leave Policy Requirements Under Indian Labour Laws
Most leave policies in India start life as a copy of someone's previous employer's policy with the company name changed. It holds up fine until an employee in Chennai points out that the state Act..
Labour Law Compliance Checklist for Businesses in India
Most companies don't break labour law on purpose. They break it because nobody ever sat down and made a labour law compliance checklist. The registration that was due within thirty days of opening..
Common Payroll Compliance Mistakes Indian Businesses Make
Payroll compliance rarely goes wrong in a dramatic way. Nobody wakes up and decides to skip PF. What happens is smaller than that. A salary structure..
Why HR Teams Are Replacing Excel with HR Software (2026)
Nobody sits down one day and decides to run HR on Excel. It just happens. Someone made a sheet when the company had eight people. Someone else added a tab for leave. In March..
From Hiring to Exit - How HR Software streamlines the employee lifecycle
Think about the last person who joined your company. Someone probably emailed you their offer letter as a Word file with the wrong date still in it. Someone else set up their salary in Excel, by hand...
HR Compliance Software Guide: Indian Payroll Rules, Made Simple
Compliance is the part of HR nobody wants to own. It's invisible when it works and expensive when it doesn't. There's no dashboard..
HR Management Software for Small Business: How to Choose
You run a small business in India. You know the drill. Twelve people. One WhatsApp group for leave requests. A payroll Excel sheet that only one person understands..
Best HR Software for Businesses: Buyer's Guide
Every vendor says they're the best. Every "top 10" article ranks a different tool at number one. And half of those articles were written by people who have never run...
Comprehensive Guide to Indian Payroll Compliances in 2024
Most Indian labor laws are complex and decoding them becomes a difficult task for the normal humans , which is, therefore, the biggest challenge that businesses face with payroll compliance...
The Role of Recruitment Software in Building a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
The nature of today's operating environment of firms has become more VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Diversity and inclusion are not mere fancy terms; they are the key..
How HR Management Software is Enhancing Employee Experience and Retention
Employee happiness and engagement are very important in the dynamic corporate world today. Success depends on the ability to attract top talent to work for an organization and then retain..
Top 10 Benefits of Attendance Management in 2024
Attendance systems are increasingly becoming popular in 2024 due to their efficiency, accuracy, and real-time data access benefits. According to a survey, the world attendance management..
