ESDS Software Solutions, the Indian cloud service and end-to-end multi-cloud requirements provider is looking to scale up and expand its workforce in the country. It is, therefore, gearing to hire over 700 candidates for its offices in India — including Nashik, Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi— by December 2022. The Company already has over 900 people in its team right now. This hiring drive will focus on picking dot net developers, business analysts, solution architects, software testers, technical associates, sales & pre-sales executives, content writers and so on. The Nashik-based IT firm is open to hiring both freshers and experienced candidates…
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Indian technology services company Wipro has reached an agreement with employee representatives to set up a European Works Council (EWC). Wipro will be the first Indian company to do so. The EWC agreement was successfully negotiated with employee representatives from 13 different countries. Employees under an EU directive have been requesting the company to set up a works council. This is as per an EU directive for companies with more than 1,000 employees across multiple European locations. Members for the council will be appointed according to local rules throughout this year and the first constitutional meeting will take place in…
T-Systems India is all set to expand its presence in the country. After Pune and Bengaluru, it has opened a new delivery centre in Nagpur, in partnership with Tech Mahindra. The Centre, located in the Mihan SEZ Zone, will be equipped with a gym, cafeteria and recreation centre among other facilities to keep employees engaged. The strategic collaboration with Tech Mahindra is aimed at fast-tracking its ramp-up in India, which will witness the hiring of over 6,000 people in the next two years. The Company is primarily looking for talent with digital and cloud skills capable of managing the cloud…
Tech Mahindra is reportedly working on a moonlighting policy, which is set to be finalised soon. Employees of the Company may be allowed to work gig projects as long as their work does not conflict with the interest of the Company, and provided they obtain permission from their managers, in writing. According to ET, Tech Mahindra’s —which may introduced in November 2022 itself— will allow its employees to take up gig work that lasts for short periods, primarily on weekends. However, the employees cannot take up any work for a rival company or a competitor, and non-compliance with the service…
Following the rigid restrictions imposed in China due to the fear of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Foxconn’s plant at Zhengzhou has been facing a lot of disruption. The Company is now considering increasing the number of workers at its plant in India to ensure that global supplies are not impacted, especially amidst a growing demand for iPhones. Over the next two years, Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational electronics company and Apple supplier, intends to expand its workforce at the Indian iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu four times, by 2024. At its Zhengzhou plant, which is probably the world’s largest…
A special job fair for the minority youth of Uttar Pradesh has begun in the State today. At least 50 companies are expected to participate and offer employment to about 5,000 minority youth. It is being held in Lucknow, the capital, by the Minority Welfare Department and Employment Department of the Government of Uttar Pradesh for minority youth. The fair has been launched at Shia PG College of Khadra, an area dominated by the minority According to Danish Azad Ansari, the minister of state for minority welfare, similar fairs will be held in about 18 locations. The appointment letters will…
It is Vineeta Singh’s opinion that crying is just a manner of self-expression for women and should not be considered as a breakdown at the workplace. Singh, who is the founder and CEO of Sugar Cosmetics, believes in women’s equality and is known for her open views that she shares on social media. A clip from a recent podcast — which Singh also shared on Twitter— showing her talking about crying being a means of self-expression for women, has triggered a debate on social media as to whether crying at the workplace should be considered normal or just a sign…
CBRE India, a rea- estate consulting firm has hired Sakshi Khosla as its new head of people. In this role, Khosla will work with the India leadership and play a crucial role in strengthening the HR practices and culture at CBRE India. Khosla has moved from Max Life Insurance, where she was the corporate vice president – HR, heading the total rewards, executive compensation, HR operations and employee relations for the company. Khosla spent more than seven years with the Max Life Group working in various capacities. She joined the Max Group in 2015 as the associate director for the…
Infosys wishes for its employees to return to office. The Company has internally communicated to its employees that the return-to-office will be implemented in three phases. The Indian IT services firm will reportedly adopt an approach that will allow some level of flexibility to the employees, and the same will vary across roles and departments. As per the first phase, employees will be working from office twice a week basis their convenience. The second phase will see them enjoying the liberty to choose which branch office they would like to relocate to or be transferred to, of the 247 offices…
That recession is looming large is quite certain now as there are reports of Amazon planning to ask about 10,000 of its employees to leave. The impacted units of the tech company are probably those that are not making profits, as per media reports. That means, about one per cent of the workforce will be let go from the about 1.6 million-strong global workforce of the Company. It also means that not more than three per cent of its corporate staff will be impacted. The layoffs may begin this week itself, as per New York Times. The move has come…
Diageo India has appointed Shilpa Vaid as its new chief human resources officer. She was formerly the BU people lead, India for Mondelez International, for over a year. An alumna of Hindu College, Delhi University, Vaid completed an MBA in HR from International Management Institute in 1999. Thereafter, she began her corporate journey with short stints at Ernst & Young, Arthur Andersen and Aviva India in the period 1999 to 2004. The year 2004 saw her donning the hat of AVP – HR at ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, based out of Bengaluru. In 2003, she joined Aviva India as manager…
Tata 1 mg, the healthcare platform, has roped in Satyajit Tripathi as the director – HR. Before moving to the Company that provides various services, including e-pharmacy, diagnostics, e-consultation and health content, Tripathi was senior HRBP and programme manager at Meesho, the Indian one-stop online shopping site. Tripathi, who completed his MBA in human resource management from XLRI, Jamshedpur, worked as compensation and benefits specialist and HRBP at Sasken Technologies for almost two years, based out of Bengaluru, in 2016. In 2018, he moved to HDFC Bank for a short stint as regional HR – South and talent acquisition lead.…
Neetu Singh is new country HR director at Dyninno India, part of the global Dyninno Group of companies that provides products and services in the travel, fintech and entertainment sectors in 50 markets. Backed by about 18 years of experience in strategic HR management across multicultural environments, Singh began her HR journey with East India Packagings, in 2003, where she was executive-HR for a year and a half. In 2005, this alumna of Panjab University joined PI Industries as manager – HR. For over six years, she managed HR policies and procedures, talent acquisition, employee welfare and engagement, rewards &…
GoGlobal, a company that provides global Employer of Record (EOR) services, has created and opened a virtual office, complete with a ping pong table, coffee room, lounges, conference rooms and even a patio with a hot tub! This new virtual office space is a place where employees can gather, somewhat as they would do in an office, and where visitors are welcome. Many of GoGlobal’s clients are high-growth technology companies who embrace the idea of meeting in a metaverse-like space. “Our Spot virtual office gives us an opportunity to connect with employees and clients from around the world in a…
Recently, big tech giants such as Twitter and the parent company of Facebook, Meta have laid off thousands of employees. After the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, the company cut 50 per cent of its workforce around the world. In this layoff, more than 3500 lost their jobs. Meta too has laid off 11,000 employees globally. After the Meta layoff, many Indian employees took to social media telling their stories about how they had joined the company in the US, and even moved from India to do so. Some were merely three days old in the company when they…
MP Birla Corporation has decided to elevate Sandip Ghose to the position of MD & CEO. He will take over from Arvind Pathak who has decided to step down as the MD and CEO for personal reasons, with effect from 31 December, 2022. With this resignation, he will also cease to be a key managerial personnel at the MP Birla Corporation. Based on the recommendations from the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, the board of directors has appointed Ghose as an additional director and simultaneously as a whole-time director in the Company with effect from 1 to 31 December, 2022. Ghose…
Tata 1mg has roped in Gurpreet Singh as director – human resources. He moves from Wingify, a Saas company, where he spent over two and a half years, first as lead – talent management & HR projects, and then as group manager, head – talent management & HR operations. He helped develop and drive the strategy around talent management, employee engagement and organisation effectiveness to support high business performance and growth. Singh, an alumnus of the Management Development Institute, Gurugram and engineering graduate from Panjab University, began his career as a system engineer with Infosys in 2013. It was in…
DP World, a global supply chain solutions company, has launched its latest innovation centre in Gurugram. The Centre will have at least 240 employees working on critical solutions for global supply chains. Having begun with just 50 employees, the tech solutions company now has over 450 employees, and is still growing. It hopes to have a headcount of at least 700 by the middle of next year. The development teams at the Gurugram centre, will work on DP World’s latest cutting-edge trade and logistics solutions to revolutionise the manner in which trade flows through every link of the global supply…
To cater to the surging demand, AI Logistix — the intelligent logistics company with an aim to identify and resolve day-to-day logistics and supply chain issues — has announced job openings in its Last Mile Green Logistics Services. AI Logistix uses electric vehicles to provide negative carbon deliveries through its intelligent systems capable of optimising cost and improving service performance across India. The Company is looking for Last sMILE delivery partners via its Green Logistics Services. It requires 100 delivery executives or AI champions for the electric 3 wheelers and 2 wheelers. The brand is on the lookout for talented…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has issued a WhatsApp number through which people can contribute towards the salaries of Yoga instructors who had been engaged under the ‘Dilli Ki Yogshala’ programme. The programme has been discontinued by the Government, but according to the Chief Minister, the citizens of Delhi are willing to contribute towards the salaries of these teachers so that these Yoga classes continue. In fact, so many people are keen for the classes to continue that the Chief Minister appealed to the residents of Delhi to send a message of support on the WhatsApp number, 7277972779. The Chief…
When an engineer at GravyWork, a Virginia-based startup in the US, travelled to California and Texas while working remotely, he had no idea that this would cost his Company hundreds of thousands of dollars. The said employee had not informed his firm that he was travelling to California and Texas. He continued to work from both these locations like a dutiful employee, but he had no clue that GravyWork wasn’t registered in either state. This caused major issues. Not only did the Company receive a notice from California and Texas, but it had to pay up $30,000 in fine, taxes…
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has appealed to all the state- government employees of Karnataka to work one hour extra daily. On 10 November, 2022 Bommai was speaking at an event where a delegation of Karnataka State Government Employees Association was facilitating him for constituting the 7th Pay Commission and implementing a revised pay scale for state government employees. Bommai appealed to the employees to work an hour extra so that the State can develop fast and contribute to the larger dream of making India a $5 trillion economy. He specially emphasised on helping the poor, the downtrodden and the…
Zoho Corp., the Chennai-based tech company will continue to invest significantly in research and development (R&D) but go slow as far as tech hiring is concerned. The Company clarified that it hasn’t imposed a hiring freeze, but only intends to slow down hiring till market conditions and economies improve. The Indian software-as-a-service company may hire more than 1,000 employees over a period of a year as per a report by Money Control. The Company’s annual revenues have crossed the one billion dollar mark last year. Sridhar Vembu, CEO and co-founder, Zoho Corp. admits that growth has slowed amidst the given…
The Government of has received orders from the Kerala High Court to create a plan that will ensure that the salaries of the employees of Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) are paid to them on time every month. Employees had filed a petition that the KSRTC be directed to create a process or scheme wherein the KSRTC employees would receive their salaries before the 5th of every month. The single bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran observed that till KSRTC manages to settle all its loans and pending dues, it cannot become self-sufficent. However, he did hope that in the…
The employees of Unilever in Australia will soon be part of a trial to study the effectiveness of a four-day work week. Starting 14 November 2022, all the 500 employees of the consumer goods company in Australia will work only for four days a week with no change in their pay. A similar trial by the Company in New Zealand that lasted from December 2020 to June 2022, gave very positive and encouraging results. The official website admits that the Australian market is bigger in size and more complex than that of New Zealand and is looking forward to deriving…
When Himanshu V relocated to Canada a few days ago, he had not even in his wildest dreams imagined that he would be fired within two days of joining his new job at Meta. He is now again hunting for a job and is open to taking up a software-engineering job either in India or Canada. Feeling quite helpless and at a loss, he has sought leads via LinkedIn. Himanshu is not the only one in a tough situation presently. The mass layoff of 11,000 people at Meta has impacted many. The laid-off staff members have been assured a severance…