Axis Bank has announced a special hiring drive for homemakers. The initiative called “HouseWorkIsWork” aims to rope in talent for their human resources function. In its pilot stage, the Bank is looking to hire 15 women through this drive.
The...
The war for attracting good tech talent has been on for some time now, and accelerated by the pandemic. Many of the big tech giants have been trying to lure the best of talent by offering them higher perks...
The future is going to be hybrid for sure. Most HR leaders and experts suggest that companies will be following the hybrid model of work for at least the next two years, till the impact of the pandemic subsides....
How many of you get up in the morning and ask yourselves ‘Am I physically fit to run my life?’ I am sure not many. We are so involved in our mundane work that it just slips our mind...
As newer avenues in the technology and consulting sector open up for fresh MBA graduates, the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) industry has ceased to be as lucrative and attractive to them as before.
A study conducted by Wall...
Having starting its journey just five years ago in India, Xiaomi has already made a significant inroad into the market plus, along with its partners, has generated employment for over 50,000 employees across the business segments with around 30,000...
The Central Government has hiked the monetary limit for accepting gifts for its employees. While the earlier limit was Rs 1500, with the amended rules coming into effect, officials belonging to groups A and B can now accept gifts...
They are hardly appreciated or recognised by their employers and organisations for their hard work. We are talking of employees who are at the lowest rung of the hierarchy. Take the case of delivery boys in an online retail...
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The hospitality industry has a very different set of employees — not the regular nine to five office goers. This business operates 24x7 and has people with unique skills and job profiles. However, the regular HR challenges — engagement...
What is better, to be a ‘jack of all trades’ or a ‘master of one’? For HR, the answer probably lies somewhere in the middle.
The HR profession, just as the businesses it supports, faces a constant challenge to keep...
Nathan SV, partner and chief talent officer, Deloitte India, shared his experience when he enrolled for his organisation’s employee community service initiative known as ‘Impact day’, for the first time. He had no clue about what the impact day...
The message to HR is very clearly now. The route to better employee engagement and building strong relations with employees goes through their families. To any individual, family matters the most.
If anything goes wrong in a person’s family, she/he...
Recently, Incred Financial Services gamified and digitised its employee-recognition programme. This changed the way people get recognised and even recognise others. Incred, which has close to 1000 employees, has implemented an instant-recognition platform, where any employee in the Company,...
Last year, Piramal Enterprise’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Piramal Capital & Housing Finance (PCHFL) acquired debt-ridden Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL). With the merger of PCHFL and DHFL, the former also absorbed close to 3000 employees of DHFL.
Talking to HRKatha, Vikram Bector,...
Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based data-activation platform and healthcare technology company, has plans to expand its employee base by a substantial percentage. As per Sonali Damle, chief people officer, Innovaccer, the Company currently has over 100 vacancies and this number...
Cadila employees have their summer vacation plans set, be it a trip to oversees or mountaineering in Nagaland, thanks to the holiday gift bestowed by their employer.
Not only will the employees but even the organisation will benefit tremendously when...
The corporate world has been known to be harsh on mothers, who are always in a dilemma whether to restart their careers or take care of their babies. The margin for error between their choosing a career over their...
Employees are the biggest asset for a company, and employee relations is growing in importance with the new generation joining the workforce. Many industries are already feeling the disruption of technology and Gen Z. Though a handful of organisations...
Tata Coffee has given a new explication to the acronym WFH – Work from Heart. It is a programme for Tata Coffee employees to volunteer for a noble cause, and avail the opportunity to give it back to the...
A very positive cultural overhaul is taking place at ICICI Bank’s head office at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai. Not only have cabins and grades been discarded, but automation and digitisation are being embraced in a big way.
Henceforth, the group...
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This is an organisation where a candidate is welcomed by the chairman of the company and at the end of the interview,the chairman also escorts the candidate out as a positive gesture. Milind Apte, SVP HR, CEAT Tyres limited...
Jone Lang LaSalle (JLL), the global real-estate services company, which started its operations in India around two decades back, now has a strength of over 11,000 employees in the country. With its workforce in the country expected to grow...
The compensation framework reduces conflicts between the trade unions and the management
ELGi Equipment, a global manufacturer of air compressors has adopted a scientific way of calculating the compensation for its more than 370 blue-collared employees in India. The Company’s...
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