Tag: Cognizant

Cognizant is all set to recruit 28,000 freshers in 2021. Last year, the IT services company hired 17,000 to handle the voluntary attrition in...

Amidst the second wave of the pandemic that has taken the country by surprise, the top five metros —Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai—...

Cognizant Technology Solutions has decided to do its bit to help techies who have taken a break — due to various reasons or family...

Havells India, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Mobile Premier League (MPL) have joined the list of corporates offering to cover the vaccination cost for their...

Cognizant will reward its staff for their “professionalism, perseverance and client-centricity,” by giving out bonuses, promotions and merit-based increments, despite the challenges posed by...

Cognizant’s annual health challenge, this year, was conduced online in collaboration with the health app, Healthifyme. The whole programme included webinars on nutrition, exercise...

Accolite Digital has appointed Rajesh Balasubramanian as head – people and culture. With more than two decades of experience across manufacturing, information technology and...

Last week, Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS) made headlines with its nine-hour work day rule for all its India-based employees. The move was part of some...

The India team of Cognizant Technology Solutions will follow a nine-hour work day starting February 15. The number of paid leaves in a year...

An employee of Cognizant was recently filmed by his neighbour (without his knowledge) while he was thrashing his pet puppy mercilessly in his house....

After a successful tenure of over six years at Cognizant, Smriti Ahuja has moved to Times Internet as chief people officer. Ahuja was earlier...

Cognizant has revealed plans to provide merit-based increments to employees, as its revenues have exceeded expectations in the third quarter. The bonuses will, therefore,...

Julie Sweet, CEO, Accenture, revealed mid-August that it plans to lay off five per cent of its global workforce, affecting around 10,000 in India....

After suspending promotions in March due to the pandemic, IT services major, Cognizant, has finally decided to roll out its promotions in a single...

Ravindra Guyyala, a former employee of Cognizant, had recently filed a lawsuit against the current and former board members of the multinational IT company,...

After receiving numerous complaints from employees of the IT firm Cognizant, Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees’ Union (KITU) said it had initiated legal action against...

According to the New Democratic Labour Front (NDLF), an IT employee union, the US- based IT major, Cognizant, has begun terminating its benched employees as...

American multinational information technology giant, Cognizant, will be paying $5.7 million to compensate its former employees who had alleged that they had been underpaid...

Following the economic impact of COVID-19 on the business, Cognizant Technology Solutions has offered its benched employees a voluntary separation package. These employees, who...

Cognizant plans to give its employees, up to associate-level, in India and the Philippines, a 25 per cent increment in base pay for the...

Employees of public banks seem unhappy with the current arrangement, where they are required to go to office even during the lockdown period. Not...

India Inc. is taking precautions to keep employees safe. While Cognizant has shut its office in Hyderabad, and asked its employees to work from...

As part of its plans to expand its workforce in India, Cognizant is all set to increase hiring from campuses. It plans to recruit...

As part of a business overhaul, Cognizant spent approx. $49 million on the employees it laid off and invested $29 million to retain the...

Cognizant has decided to layoff around 350 people from mid to senior level positions. The salary packages of these employees ranged from Rs 80...

The general secretary of the Forum for IT Employees (FITE), Elavarasan Raja, who has been an employee of Cognizant for five months now, has...

Union of IT and ITES employees (UNITE) is not ready to take the recent announcement made by Cognizant to lay off thousands, lightly. According...

Cognizant, the information technology company, is planning to lay off 7000 employees in the next couple of quarters. The Company is also readying to...

American information technology company, Cognizant, has a 2.88 lakh strong workforce globally, of which one lakh are women, that is, 34 per cent. The...

A research has recently revealed that the average wage paid by Indian IT services firms to their employees in the US, is about $96,300....

Information technology company, Cognizant, is taking measures to cut down on expenses. Not only will the company slow down hiring, but it will also...

American multinational IT services company, Cognizant, is reportedly planning to increase the variable component of its employees’ pay package. This will help the Company...

American multinational IT services provider, Cognizant, is expected to hike the pay packages of its entry-level engineers in India by about 18 per cent....

Cognizant, the US-based IT services company, is expected to lay off a significant number of its employees, most of them in India. It is...

A cost-cutting drive at US-based IT company, Cognizant, did not stop its senior executives from getting double-digit hikes in salary last year. Former CEO of...

Facebook, the social-media platform has always been counted amongst the hip places to work in. However, a recent report in The Verge suggests that...

The Forum for Information Technology Employees (FITE), Maharashtra recently met with Maharashtra Labour Minister Sambhaji Patil Nilangikar and other senior officials to discuss various...

American multinational IT services provider, Cognizant, has been certified as a Top Employer for 2019, not only across 10 countries of Europe, but also...

India’s top five IT companies witnessed the most extraordinary hiring figures ever in the quarter ending September. In fact, the hiring figures were the...

The multinational will downsize at the top level, to make way for the juniors.

Allapur will move from Capgemini, where he was CHRO, global head-HR, business services

Over a lakh employees volunteered to reach out to students, even in remote areas, to teach and guide them.

Value of investment (VoI) includes increased awareness about health and health programmes, improved employee engagement and better brand recall for the organisation

The Company is attempting to increase its cost margins and revenue growth.

Around 20 executives have written a letter to the CEO and chief people officer of the company, intimating their decision to take a pay cut ranging from 10 per cent to 20 per cent.

The scenario is another indicator that the IT industry going through a tough phase.

The IT giant has increased local hiring in the past two years.

Large-scale white-collar displacement at middle and senior levels is a relatively new phenomenon in the Indian business environment, which both employees and employers are ill equipped to handle. This will certainly increase the chances of unions playing a more dominant role.

With dipping revenues, falling hiring numbers and the kind of talent sought by IT industry undergoing a massive change, what will keep the charm intact? 

Employees with over Rs 40 lakh in annual salaries or those at the director and senior VP level are being considered.