In preparation for its expanding workforce, Noise, the Indian connected lifestyle tech brand, will soon launch its new office space headquartered in Gurugram, India. With a focus on the wellbeing of employees, the new office space is spread over 20,000 sq.ft. and is spacious enough to accommodate its existing 200+ employees as well as the new hires it is planning to add. The Company has also revamped its policies for the workforce. Under the ‘No Questions Asked’ policy, employees can avail up to four weeks of leave in a financial year without having to specify any reason for the same.…
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Lentra, the lending solutions company, has appointed Bhuvaneswar Naik as its chief human resources officer. Naik, who was co-founder and chief operating officer, Deskfactors Inc., comes with almost three decades of experience. Having started off his career with the Taj Group of Hotels in 1993, as a personnel officer, Naik sure has had an interesting journey. He did a short stint with SE Technologies as manager – human resources before joining SAP in 1996. There, he went from being director and head – HR to VP- HR shared services in a span of over eight years. The year 2005 saw…
The district magistrate of Lakhisarai, Bihar, ordered the salary of the headmaster of a high school in the district to be cut for turning up in a kurta and pyjama! The DM issued a show-cause notice to the headmaster for looking like a public representative and not like a teacher. A video that went viral shows Lakhisarai DM Sanjay Kumar Singh reprimanding Nirbhay Kumar Singh for not dressing up like a teacher. He is seen telling the headmaster that he mistook him for a local public representative in that attire and that he did not appear to be a teacher…
Terra.do, a global climate school and careers platform, will host India’s first online climate jobs fair on its app on 20 July, 2022. Recruiters and hiring managers from TATA Power, Yulu, ElectricPe, Pyse, String Bio, amongst others will be participating and looking for talent for various remote and onsite openings, across Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai as well as other tier-1 cities. The fair will offer opportunities to professionals across skills and sectors, covering software, hardware and design, data science and analysis, management, communication, research, sales, consumer relations and more. Opportunities will be available for iOS developers, DevOps, full-stack and Web developers,…
Unacademy, the edtech unicorn, is taking measures to cut costs and focus on profitability. As part of the exercise, its founders and senior management will take a pay cut, while employees will have to forego all free meals and snacks at work. No employee, not even the senior managers will enjoy business class travel any more. Those who seek to upgrade will have to pay for the same personally from their own pocket. Considering that the organisation is preparing for an initial public offering in two years’ time, it is now trying to operate as a ‘frugal’ organisation. To ensure…
This year, the processing time for employer-sponsored green cards has again increased. Now, it will take at least three years to process. However, the process can be speeded up against payment of $2,500, though it will still take two years and five months. A green card allows legal permanent residence in the US to immigrant workers. However, the process of obtaining it is becoming tougher and more time consuming with every passing year. About six years ago, it took about 16 months less time. What took less than two years earlier, and could be achieved in a year and a…
Policybazaar, the Indian online insurance marketplace, has concluded the second season of its unique employee-engagement contest aptly called, Jeeto Apna Ghar (JAG). As the name suggests, the contest allows the top performers or insurance advisors an opportunity to win their own homes. This unique initiative has had two benefits. Not only has it pushed employees to go the extra mile and overachieve their targets, but it has dramatically reduced attrition in the salesforce by 50 per cent. It is Policybazaar’s belief that loyalty has to be earned by the Company. Launched in 2020, the Jeeto Apna Ghar contest recognises the…
After Elon Musk’s legal team conveyed to the US securities that they would want to opt out of the $44 billion deal of acquiring microblogging platform Twitter, the employees at Twitter started posting and commenting about the deal on social media. The deal went into crisis on Friday, when Musk’s team announced the cancellation of the deal with Twitter. Recently, however, the global media has reported that after seeing how Twitter employees have been commenting about the deal on social media, the general counsel at Twitter has shot off an internal memo to all employees asking them to refrain from…
Shahi Exports, the Indian apparel manufacturer and exporter has roped in George Varghese as CHRO. In this role, Varghese will lead the people strategy at the firm. With close to two decades of experience in HR, Varghese has served in various HR leadership roles in leading companies such as Titan, Accenture and Dr Reddy’s. Prior to this, Varghese was leading the HR for global business services at First Abu Dhabi Bank. He played a critical role in setting up the HR function and operations of global business services at the Bank. This alumnus of the Xavier Institute of Social Services…
Arrival, the manufacturer and inventor of equitable electric vehicles has appointed Mandeep Bajwa as its new CHRO. Bajwa will look after the global people strategy for the Company with responsibilities such as global recruitment, people management and operations, diversity, equality and inclusion, and organisational effectiveness. Bajwa comes with two decades of vast experience in leading global HR strategy in various companies. Prior to this appointment, Bajwa was leading the HR function at Gett, a provider of ground transportation management. “Arrival has a world-class leadership team, with a fundamental focus on people, company values and mission. The Company has an unbeatable…
The Government of Delhi’s Gandhi Nagar redevelopment projects hopes to transform the crowded Gandhi Nagar market into a global brand. This, in turn, will generate jobs for about 40,000 people, according to Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s tweet. The market will be redeveloped as per global standards, for which shop owners have been requested to fill up online survey forms. These forms require them to put in details about the nature of their business, the number of customers that visit on a daily basis, number of employees, the age group of customers and so on. The other markets that…
A techie’s post has gone viral for very interesting reasons. In the screenshot of his tweet, which he posted on LinkedIn, he seems to be asking whether he can bring his mother to negotiate a “better deal” for him in terms of salary! After all, mothers think their kids’ skills are unmatched! Nitish Yadav, the techie in question, may never have imagined that his post would be viewed by thousands and invite varied reactions from netizens when he asked if he could involve his mother in a salary negotiation. The software developer probably thought his mother was the best person…
On 8 July 2022, Indian multinational company, Tata Consultancy Services revealed that its employees have been given increments between five to eight per cent, with the best performers enjoying bigger hikes, post their yearly review. That is not all, TCS has employees from about 153 nationalities as part of its workforce, which comprises 35.5 per cent women. It is clearly doing well on the diversity front too. Having hired over 14,000 people in the first quarter, the workforce strength of the IT major was about 606,331 at the end of June, 2022, while its attrition had gone up to 19.7…
Close on the heels of the cabin crew going on mass leave to attend interviews at rival airlines, now the technicians at Indigo, in Hyderabad and Delhi, have called in sick en masse. They failed to report for night duty on 8 July, 2022 and the following morning, that is, 9 July, 2022, calling in sick. Earlier, on 2 July, 2022, the cabin crew had called in sick, en masse, causing hundreds of flights to be delayed and inconveniencing thousands of passengers. It was later reported in the media that these cabin crew members had taken leave to attend interviews…
As per rules, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is applicable on any transactions between two related parties, even if the transaction is done without a consideration. Similarly, the relation between employer and employee is kept under GST, but any consideration payable to an employee by the employer is kept outside GST. This led to confusion and ambiguity. However, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBITC) has now clarified that perquisites provided by employers to employees are not subject to GST, and emphasised that penalties can only be levied in cases involving fake invoices, as no goods are…
The Netherlands is set to become the first country to make work-from-home a legal right for all employees in the country. The lower house of the Dutch parliament has passed the law, which makes work-from-home a legal right for all citizens. The lockdowns during the pandemic had caused firms around the world to facilitate their employees’ remote work. With the mobility restrictions being lifted and the economy slowly opening up, many companies have been calling their employees back to office. This led to the issue of many employees remaining unwilling to return to office. Having tasted the benefits of working…
Given the high inflation in the country, combined with fuel prices rising steadily since January 2022, the common man’s pocket in the UAE is being adversely affected. Employees are asking their employers to increase their salaries. In a chat with Khaleej Times, country head of a global staffing company reveals that companies in the UAE are considering giving a mid-term hike to employees of about seven to 10 per cent. They are also looking to give a 35 to 40 per cent allowance for fuel. It is reported that UAE has witnessed a 75 per cent hike in fuel prices…
After momentarily pausing hiring activities this year, Twitter has now further made a call to fire 30 per cent of people as part of the talent-acquisition team. The Company has confirmed to the media about the firing of 30 per cent staff in the talent-acquisition department. Although Twitter has assured that the outgoing employees will get a severance package, no details about the same have been offered. The actually number of employees that will be affected is not clear either. In May 2022, Twitter had announced a hiring freeze in most departments as part of a cost-cutting measure. Since Twitter…
An honest professor in Bihar who realised that no students had attended his Hindi classes ever since he joined in 2019, returned his salary for two years. That means, Dr Lalan Kumar, of Nitishwar College, part of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University (BRABU), in Muzaffarpur, returned almost Rs 24 lakhs through a cheque, to the vice-chancellor of the BRABU. Apparently, out of the 131 students, not even one attended his classes. Even when classes were happening online during the pandemic, very few came for his Hindi classes. The professor reportedly told the media that if he accepted salary for not…
IndiGo pilots and crew members have received yet another eight per cent hike in their salaries. This is the second hike in four months. The earlier one came in April 2022. The latest hike will come into effect from 1 August 2022. Interestingly, this hike has been announced close on the heels of the crew at Indigo going on mass leave, allegedly to attend job interviews at Air India, which is on a hiring spree right now. The crew reportedly called in sick, enmasse, which caused 900 IndiGo flights to be delayed on 2 July, 2022. Staff at Indigo had…
Since Tesla has been downsizing its workforce, other companies in similar domains have been keen to hire these laid off employees. As per a data released by Punks & Pinstripes, as of now 457 ex-Tesla employees — laid off during the last two months— have joined various companies. Some of the employers who have hired former Tesla talent are Rivian, an electric vehicle maker, Apple and Amazon. Punks & Pinstripes has managed to curate these movements from Linkedin data. Around 18 companies have absorbed close to 457 employees of Tesla. Reports reveal that till date, Tesla has seen two rounds…
A former Tesla employee, Roosevelt Jointer, from Reno, Nevada, has filed a case in a Texas court because the auto company sacked him without notice. The court reportedly accepted his petition and included it as evidence in a motion against Tesla. The motion has been filed by two other former Tesla employees – John Lynch and Daxton Hartfield, who too had approached the court disapproving of the way in which the Company has recently laid off people without any warning or notice. Jointer has apparently been with Tesla as a maintenance supervisor since September 2017 until June 2022, when he…
The Intelligence Bureau (IB), Ministry of Home Affairs, has invited applications for the recruitment of Group B and Group C posts. A total of 766 vacancies for the posts of assistant central intelligence officer (ACIO), security assistant (SA), and junior intelligence officer (JIO) have been notified. The last date to apply is 19 August. These vacancies will be for a tenure of three to five years, on deputation, which may be extended to not more than seven years. These posts can be anywhere in India and are liable for transfer. Meanwhile, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is recruiting…
The recruitment firm, Natural Resources Canada has advertised inviting online applications for the post of human resources assistants, for its corporate management and services sector. Interestingly, the Company in its post states that it doesn’t require any college or HR-related educational qualification. However, the mandatory education qualifications required for the job is a secondary school diploma and about six months of experience in general administrative or clerical duties. The candidates must provide services to clients requiring data entry, drafting correspondence and maintaining files. Besides these, the candidate should be willing to work overtime whenever required and should be eligible to…
Neo-banking platform, Niyo has roped in Jagdish B as head-HR. Jagdish is a seasoned HR professional from the telecom sector, and has worked with Vodafone and Airtel in the past. In fact, he spent close to 12 years of his career with Vodafone. Prior to that, he was with Bharti Airtel as head- HR for Kerala circle. It was at Vodafone, that Jagdish grew up the ranks from circle HR head for Andhra Pradesh to Sr VP – HRBP. He joined the company in 2006. Jagdish, an alumnus of Madras School of Social Work and Loyola College Chennai, was also…
Data and analytics solutions firm, InfoCepts has hired Majid Ali Khan as its global talent-acquisition head. With more than 18 years of experience in the HR sector, InfoCepts will see Khan handling talent acquisition (TA), globally, for all the business markets of the Company, across corporate functions. Speaking about his new role, Khan said that his responsibilities will include setting and scaling up the TA function for various business units with major focus on the Indian market. Highly experienced in process improvement, implementing contemporary techniques and new processes of recruitment and vendor management, Khan started his career in HR with…