As we adapt to the new normal of working from home, companies are laying out new sets of rules to ease the work life of their employees. On similar lines, Lenovo India has rolled out new directives that bar...
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is gearing up to embrace work from home in a bigger way within the next five years. In the new approach that TCS is planning to implement, the Company will benefit from the Secure Borderless...
With seven staff members of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) testing positive for COVID-19, a decision has been taken for buses to run without conductors. This has led to a fear of layoffs among the employees.
Right now,...
Online delivery services have become the lifeline for cities amidst the 21-day lockdown across the country.
On the one hand there is the rising demand for supplies, and on the other hand there are genuine logistical challenges. Online grocery firms,...
For the first time, Mastercard, the American multinational financial services company, disclosed its gender pay gap, revealing that its women employees earned 7.8 per cent less than the male staff.
While the Company claims to have achieved parity on an...
Employees working for the Government of Maharashtra, who presently get only second and fourth Saturdays off every month, may soon be able to enjoy a five-day work week. However, there is a catch. They will have to work 45...
As a good practice, most organisations conduct exit interviews. This helps them identify the challenges in an organisation because of which employees leave. However, the truth remains that the employee has already left and talent has been lost. To...
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...
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As part of its green initiatives, the city administration of Bhubaneswar has come up with a plan to ask each employee to either walk or cycle to work once a week. The Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL), Bhubaneswar Development...
Deloitte recently concluded its 17th annual Impact Day 2019. This programme gives an opportunity to its employees to volunteer for different projects, which can make an ‘impact’ on the public. Over the past editions, the programme has been focussing...
In a recent development, the state police department of Uttar Pradesh has issued strict directions to commercial establishments to provide pick and drop facility for women late at night.
The move came after an incident wherein the Superintendent of Police,...
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...
Not all employees are in favour of negative marking in the exams for promotion, as suggested by the Railway Board. This proposal has started to cause a rift between the employees at the junior and senior levels.
Following increasing pressure...
The office of the electricity department in UP's Banda district is in such a bad condition that it is feared the roof may collapse any moment. However, instead of fixing the roof, the office expects its employees to wear...
Last June, about 30 women employees of Ernst and Young, New Jersey, happened to attend a leadership training. However, the advice given to them to succeed as leaders was rather misogynistic and regressive. They were apparently advised to dress...
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...
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...
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Mumbai-based Aegon Life...
ATG Tires, an off-highway tire manufacturing company, which was initially a family-owned business seems to be doing all the right things. It came under the Yokohama Group when its promoter sold its stakes in 2016. Since then, changes have...
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...
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...
India Philip Morris (IPM) India Wholesale Trading, a country affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), has received the EQUAL-SALARY certification from the EQUAL-SALARY Foundation.
The smoke-free technology company believes that only a diverse and inclusive culture can drive innovation and...
The government schools in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh will now witness their teachers clicking selfies in front of their classrooms to mark their attendance. The system is expected to solve the issue of ‘ghost teachers’, an old...
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...
Vedanta, an active player in the aluminum industry, with its superior product quality, is leaving no stone unturned to spread joy amongst its employees and their families.
The Company’s aluminum plant in Lanjigarh, Odisha, played host to an event never...
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