Genpact has initiated an independent internal review after employees at its Hyderabad office raised allegations of gender discrimination, excessive working hours, harassment and retaliation against those who complained about workplace conditions. The allegations surfaced after employee Rohit Kotana shared a video recording of a September meeting in which several employees raised complaints with the company’s employee relations representative. The recording, originally posted on LinkedIn, has since circulated widely on social media. The video, originally shared on LinkedIn by employee Rohit Kotana, captures employees raising complaints about workplace treatment, management conduct and the handling of medical emergencies. The recording can be…
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LinkedIn will overhaul its annual bonus structure from fiscal year 2027, making individual employee performance the sole basis for calculating payouts under its corporate bonus programme. The Microsoft-owned professional networking platform currently bases annual bonuses equally on company and individual performance, with each accounting for 50 per cent of the payout. Under the revised system, the company-wide performance component will be removed, placing greater emphasis on employees’ individual contributions. According to a report by Business Insider, an internal memo said the change is intended to strengthen the link between employee contributions and rewards. A LinkedIn spokesperson also confirmed that the…
The US administration has suspended Microsoft’s access to a labour- certification programme used by employers to sponsor skilled foreign workers for permanent residency, citing an ongoing investigation into the company’s hiring practices. The decision was announced by US Vice President JD Vance, who said the move was intended to protect American workers from unfair wage competition. However, officials did not provide evidence that Microsoft had laid off US employees and replaced them with foreign workers through the H-1B visa programme. The suspension affects Microsoft’s ability to use the US Department of Labour’s certification process, which requires employers to demonstrate that…
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to hire an additional 15,000 employees in the US over the next five years, maintaining its local hiring strategy despite the US government’s suspension of its access to the Permanent Labour Certification (PERM) programme. The company said the suspension was unlikely to affect its workforce plans or client engagements, as its applications under the programme had remained in single digits over the past two years. The US Department of Labour has suspended eight technology companies, including TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCL, Capgemini, Microsoft and Adobe, from filing new applications or processing pending applications under the…
Women account for 43 per cent of the workforce in India’s Ayush services sector, with their representation exceeding 50 per cent across several organised segments, according to a report released by the Ministry of Ayush. The Ayush Service Sector Report, prepared by the Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), was released on Ayurveda Day 2026. It highlights women’s growing participation across healthcare delivery, education, wellness and allied services. Female representation is highest in spas and wellness resorts, where women account for more than 60 per cent of the workforce. They make up 58 per cent of employees in…
Dhanashree Raaj has joined Prodevans Technologies as chief human resources officer (CHRO), taking responsibility for the company’s global people strategy as it looks to scale its operations, strengthen leadership capabilities and build a high-performing, people-centric culture. Raaj brings more than two decades of HR leadership experience across technology, financial services, global capability centre (GCC) consulting and service delivery. Her experience spans organisation design, workforce planning, leadership development, performance management, total rewards, employee experience and HR transformation. She joins Prodevans after working independently as a Fractional CHRO from September 2025, advising organisations on HR strategy, senior recruitment, organisation design and workforce…
Google has introduced Gemini AI, a workplace artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to act like a colleague rather than just a tool. Announced by Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud, at the Gemini at Work 2026 event, the agent integrates across Gmail, Docs, Drive, Sheets, and also third party platforms such as Slack and Microsoft 365. Gemini is built as a universal agent capable of writing and running code, creating media, and managing workflows. Employees can assign tasks to it, and it delivers results independently. It can also generate ‘sub agents’ — temporary assistants with their own identities — to handle…
Tanvi Chaturvedi will now play chief executive officer at Jombay, the HR services company she has been associated with for over nine years now. She began her career as an associate consultant with Quadrangle Consulting Services in 2008, and joined Pearson in 2011, as product development lead, Pearson Talent Assessment-Talent Lens India. Over a year and a half into this role, based out of Bengaluru, she was elevated to certified master trainer (talent products), Pearson Talent Lens India. For the next four and a half years she was responsible for product certifications, psychological research (using quantitative and qualitative techniques), as…
Porsche plans to eliminate around 9,000 jobs by 2030 as the German luxury carmaker restructures its operations in response to weaker demand, profitability pressures and changes in its electric vehicle strategy. The planned reductions represent about 25 per cent of the company’s workforce. When earlier announced measures are included, total workforce reductions could reach around 30 per cent, according to company disclosures and international media reports. The restructuring was outlined during Porsche’s Capital Markets Day at its Weissach Development Centre near Stuttgart. The company is shifting its focus away from volume growth towards profitability, with greater emphasis on higher-priced vehicles…
HubSpot plans to reduce its workforce by about 7 per cent, affecting nearly 660 employees, as the company restructures its organisation around a shift towards AI-driven products and customer outcomes. The company’s board approved the restructuring plan on October 1, with employees informed about the decision on October 6, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The timing of the workforce reduction will vary across countries depending on local employment laws and consultation requirements. HubSpot said the restructuring reflects a broader change in how it operates as it moves from developing software that helps customers grow…
A restaurant owner in China has rewarded some of her top-performing employees with brand-new BMW cars, saying the gesture was intended to make their daily commutes more comfortable during harsh weather. The owner, who runs a beef hotpot chain in Henan province, reportedly noticed that several employees travelled to work on electric scooters. Concerned about their daily commute during cold, rainy and windy conditions, she decided to provide selected workers with cars. According to the South China Morning Post, the employees were taken to a BMW dealership on September 24 under the impression that they were attending a meeting. Instead,…
Shivani Hazari has taken on the role of group head – human resources at Jindal Steel expanding her mandate after more than three years with the Group in a senior leadership advisory role. She will focus on leadership development, talent management and HR priorities across the Jindal Group. She moves into the role after serving as president and group head – leadership advisory at JSP Group Advisory since July 2023. In that position, Hazari was responsible for strengthening leadership talent capability across the Group and supporting its transformation agenda. Her leadership advisory mandate extended across businesses including steel, power, renewables,…
Capital One Financial Corporation has appointed Pooja Ranjan as the head of human resources for Capital One India. Backed by the experience she gained from her two-decade long tenure at IBM, Ranjan will be tasked with handling leadership planning, talent strategy, strategic workforce planning, and organisational transformation. Pooja Ranjan’s association with IBM began in the year 2000. She spent her initial three years there as AP compensation design team. In January of 2004 she was elevated to integration lead-Daksh. A year later she became total compensation partner. Two years into this role came another promotion that made her HR process…
Saikat Halder has been promoted to director – talent acquisition at KPMG, marking the latest step in a career spanning more than 15 years across talent acquisition, recruitment and HR leadership. Halder moves into the role after serving as senior associate director – talent acquisition at KPMG, where he was part of the KPMG Global Services talent-acquisition leadership team. He has worked across hiring strategies and cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple business lines, with experience in both lateral and early-career recruitment. Before returning to KPMG, Halder spent close to two years with Atlassian as campus recruiting lead – India and Poland…
Jyothsana Vasudevan has been appointed president and chief human resources officer at SRF, effective 5 October, 2026, taking charge of the company’s people agenda. She comes with more than two decades of experience across HR leadership, talent strategy, organisational development and transformation. Vasudevan brings over 24 years of HR experience spanning manufacturing, consumer durables, energy and oil and gas, technology, finance and shared services, as well as plant operations and supply chain. She joins SRF from Avaada Electro, where she served as senior vice president–HR, manufacturing from July 2025 to September 2026. At Avaada Electro, she led HR for the…
The FBI has removed a contractor linked to a third-party technology provider after a security lapse exposed sensitive personal and employment information belonging to thousands of bureau employees, according to Reuters. The contractor was removed on October 5 after the FBI found that a required security patch had not been installed on a third-party managed platform. The incident has raised concerns around patch management and the security risks associated with outsourced technology systems. The information exposed included details about employees’ counterintelligence responsibilities, addresses of human intelligence operatives, as well as medical and psychiatric records. The FBI has not disclosed the…
Amazon has begun another round of corporate job reductions, trimming fewer than 1,000 white collar roles, mostly in its Stores division. The move comes on top of nearly 30,000 jobs already eliminated since late 2025, and this time employees in India, the UK, and the US are among those affected. The timing of the cuts coincided with Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days shopping event, adding to the shock for staff who learned of the changes through internal Slack channels. While the company confirmed the layoffs, it did not give an exact figure, saying only that the restructuring was meant to…
California has become the first state in the US to pass a law that directly limits how employers can use artificial intelligence (AI) in firing or disciplining workers. signed SB 947, known as the ‘No Robo Bosses Act’, last week, setting new rules that will take effect on1 July, 2027. The law makes it clear that companies cannot lean entirely on algorithms to decide whether someone keeps their job. Automated-Decision Systems (ADS), including AI tools, can no longer be the sole or main factor in disciplinary or termination decisions. Employers must disclose when AI is used, explain what personal data…
TVS Industrial & Logistics Parks (TVS ILP) has launched a People Happiness Programme (PHP), a year-round employee-wellbeing initiative covering physical, psychological, social and financial wellbeing. The programme is built around four principles — communication, clarity, consistency and care — and aims to integrate wellbeing into employees’ everyday experience rather than limiting it to periodic engagement activities. Under the physical-wellbeing pillar, employees will have access to health check-up camps, wellness programmes and yoga sessions. The psychological wellbeing component includes wellness webinars and 24×7 professional counselling services in multiple languages. The social-wellbeing pillar focuses on building workplace connections through cultural and festive…
Credit-scoring company FICO plans to reduce its workforce by about 15 per cent as part of a restructuring aimed at simplifying its operations and integrating artificial intelligence into its business. The company began notifying employees about the job cuts this week. It has not disclosed the exact number of positions affected, but FICO had 3,811 employees at the end of September 2025, putting the potential number of affected workers at around 570. The restructuring is expected to be largely completed by the third quarter of fiscal 2027. FICO expects to incur about $27 million in pre-tax charges during the fourth…
SAP has agreed to acquire TechWolf, an AI-powered work-intelligence platform, in a move that will strengthen skills mapping, workforce planning and talent-management capabilities within its SAP SuccessFactors portfolio. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. TechWolf’s technology provides organisations with a continuously updated view of employee skills and work activities by analysing how work is performed, the skills available within an organisation and external labour market information. SAP plans to integrate these capabilities with its existing HR technologies…
Moonmoon Varma has joined Coda as chief people officer, taking charge of the company’s global people & talent organisation as it enters its next phase of growth. Varma brings more than two decades of HR leadership experience across Asia Pacific and Europe, with a career spanning people strategy, organisational transformation, talent, culture and leadership development. She joins Coda from Yum! Brands, where she served as chief people officer from January 2022. During her tenure, she led the people agenda at the quick-service restaurant company, bringing experience in business transformation and strategic negotiations alongside broader people leadership. Before Yum! Brands, Varma…
Somesh Ganti has been appointed director-HR at T-Hub, taking on a senior people leadership role at the based in Hyderabad, and world’s largest home for Startups. Ganti brings experience across talent management, performance management, HR business partnering, succession planning, rewards and recognition, career development and change management. He joins T-Hub from Syngene International, where he most recently served as senior manager – talent & performance management. He joined Syngene in June 2024 as senior human resources business partner and later took on an expanded HRBP mandate for the company’s Essential Functions. At Syngene, Ganti worked on talent depth, succession planning…
Nivedita Debnath has been elevated to senior director-global talent management & learning at Avery Dennison, taking on an expanded global- leadership mandate after more than 15 years with the organisation. Debnath brings extensive experience across talent management, learning and development, organisational development and organisational effectiveness, having progressively taken on broader responsibilities across regional and global roles at Avery Dennison. She moves into the senior director role after serving as global director–talent management & learning since January 2026. Earlier, Debnath spent seven years as director – learning and organisational development for Asia Pacific & Sub-Saharan Africa, from August 2016 to August…
One of Norway’s lenders, DNB, will lay off around 400 employees from its Technology & Services division as part of a major shift toward artificial intelligence (AI) and digital operations. The bank said the changes are meant to improve efficiency, enhance customer experience, and prepare for future service models driven by automation. The restructuring will be completed by the end of 2026, with related costs booked in mid 2027. DNB has already introduced AI agents to handle tasks such as coding, technology development, and compliance checks that were previously done manually. These tools have accelerated processes and increased capacity, but…
Jio-bp has picked Shilpa Surve to head human resources, based out of Mumbai. Surve was earlier with Knowledge Realty Trust as vice president-human resources since July of 2025. After completing Bachelor of Mass Media, Advertising from St Xavier’s College, Surve went on to obtain an MMS in HR from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS). She joined Nirmal Bang Securities as assistant manager in 2009, where she was responsible for junior-level recruitment and logistics for the same. She spent over a year sourcing resumes, screening profiles, conducting first round of interviews, and conducting appropriate preliminary tests. She also created…