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Will there be layoffs at Apple and Google?
In what looks like a sure shot indication of a slowdown, Apple Inc. has laid off many contract-based recruiters as part of an attempt...
Google expects staff to work harder
With fears of recession and revenue growth slowing down, Google expects its employees to work harder and be more productive.
While several organisations have resorted...
Google hires man after 39 rejections
Tyler Cohen's persistence finally got him his dream job at Google. He applied and got rejected 39 times, before finally making the cut on...
Placement news from across India
At the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, the placement process for the Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (PGPX) has been successfully...
Google to slow down hiring
Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, has conveyed to the employees that the Company will slow down hiring for the remaining part of the year.
Pichai clarified...
These companies are hiring employees laid off by Tesla
Since Tesla has been downsizing its workforce, other companies in similar domains have been keen to hire these laid off employees. As per a...
Google agrees to pay $118 mn to women employees in gender-discrimination...
In a class action discrimination lawsuit, Google has agreed to pay $118 million to about 15,300 women employees in the US across 236 job...
Googler sent on leave post revelations about chatbot
When Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, started engaging in chats with the language model for dialogue applications or LaMDA, little did he know...
Openings at Google, in Mumbai and Hyderabad
There is good news for those seeking jobs in various domains including sales, marketing, engineering, technology, business strategy and people and facilities. Google’s Mumbai...
Google accused of casteism
Google has been accused of being casteist. The software major cancelled a talk by a Dalit activist based in the US, following pressure from...
Google offers Rs 11.6 lakh per month to IIIT Allahabad student
Having witnessed 100 per cent placement, an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad MTech student has managed to bag an offer of Rs...
Google simplifies performance reviews
Google is introducing a simpler and more systematic evaluation process called Google Reviews and Development or GRAD. Under this system, the performance reviews will...
Google gets Shraddhanjali Rao as head-HR
Google has hired Shraddhanjali Rao as its head-HR for India. In this role, she will lead the HR function for the Company in India.
Rao...
Googlers in the US to get electric scooters on returning to...
As part of its endeavour to bring back its employees to office, Google is offering free e-scooters to them.
Google has tied up with Unagi,...
Google accused of being biased towards black employees
An ex-employee of Google, April Curley, who is an African American woman, has filed a lawsuit against Google which states that the tech giant...
46% Google employees feel their salaries are not competitive
Google’s internal employee survey has revealed that some Googlers are not happy with their compensation structure and they feel that they can earn more...
Google is hiring IT support engineers
Google, the multinational tech major, is hiring IT support engineers, who will begin working at Techstop, its internal support organisation, in April 2022. Fresh...
Google lifts social distancing and testing mandates for US employees
Google has relaxed some of its COVID-19 measures and protocols related to vaccination, testing and social distancing for its US employees.
In a mail written...
100% placements at IIM Kozhikode
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) reported 100 per cent placements at the final placements week, and that too just three days into...
Google’s US employees to get tested before entering office premises
Mandating vaccination for employees earlier, Google will now ask all of its US-based employees, who are entering offices to get a weekly COVID-19 test....
Google employees to lose pay if they don’t get vaccinated
Google has warned employees that they’ll lose pay and eventually be fired from their jobs if they fail to get vaccinated by January 18,...
Google grants $1,600 bonus to employees
Google will provide a one-time cash bonus of $1,600 or equivalent value, to the extended workforce and interns. The bonus is expected to be...
Google to not reopen offices on Jan 10, 2022
In view of the growing threat around the new COVID-19 variant, Omicron, many major international conglomerates and organisations are rethinking their plans to reopen...
Google’s contract workers fight against bonus cut
About 250 contractual workers working for Google’s data centre raised their voices against a bonus cut. These temps were promised a weekly bonus of...
Google goes ‘biophilic’, revamps NY office to connect with nature
Google aims to attract its New York-based personnel with a revamped office space, which cost $2.1 billion to redo. This redefined workspace of the...
Apple fires #AppleToo movement leader
A programme manager at Apple, who is also a leader of the #AppleToo movement, was fired by the Company for what Apple called ‘non-compliance’.
Janneke...
‘Cancel Project Nimbus’: Amazon, Google employees
Amazon and Google have signed a deal with the Israeli government, including the military, offering them cloud services solutions as part of Project Nimbus,...
‘Employers cannot impose vaccine mandate’: Texas governor
Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, believes that even though vaccination remains the best protection for the population against COVID-19, it should be voluntary and...
Black Google employee held by security staff
Google is making headlines for its weak commitment to inclusivity at the workplace. One of its Black employees has claimed that he was stopped...
Google’s advanced features to improve communication in hybrid workplace
In a bid to enhance employee-employee relations in a hybrid work setting, Google has announced advanced features in Google Workspace. These include introduction of...
Google pushes back return to office to Jan 2022
Amidst fear of the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, Google has revealed that it does not expect most of its staff...
Facebook staff to work from home till January 2022
Facebook has no plans to get its employees to return to office before January 2022. Earlier, in June, the tech company had said it...
Google Cloud set to hire people with autism
Rob Enslin, president - cloud sales, Google, has announced the launch of Google Cloud’s Autism Career Programme, which is designed to hire and support...
Up to 25% pay cut for Googlers working from home
With Googlers set to return to office in September, the Company plans to follow a new salary structure. According to the new model, which...
80 Googlers fired for misusing user data since 2018
Google fired 36 employees last year, 26 the year before last and 18 in 2018, for defying privacy norms and misusing user data. The...
Google to delay ‘return to office’, insists on vaccination
Googlers will have to get themselves inoculated before returning to office. Google’s plan to bring its employees back to office in September has been...
Testbook to tie up with universities and IITs for job-prep programme
Testbook.com, the Indian government job preparation ed-tech platform, will now offer a 360-degree ‘’Skilled Campus Programme’ for students, across over 50 universities and colleges,...
Google shows improvement in ensuring racial diversity, globally
Google has claimed that it has made significant improvement in terms of hiring people from different colours. Now the Company has gained confidence and...
Googlers can use Work Location Tool to calculate pay for remote...
Google has launched a platform that will allow its employees to calculate how much their pay or earnings will be if they decide to...
Google’s diversity head loses role for hurting Jews in blog post
Kamau Bobb, global head of diversity strategy and research, Google, has been asked to step down after a 13-year old blog post of his...
Google accused of underpaying women, may have to pay $600 mn...
Google is now facing a gender-pay lawsuit which was given class-action status by a San Francisco state judge. That means, the four main petitioners...
Google offers bonus, prizes for finding bugs
Now that Android 12 is available on certain phones in a beta version, Google has struck upon a way to clear it of all...
Opportunities galore for women in the gaming industry
A new area is opening up for women to seek employment in — gaming. For those who think women gamers are few and far...
Nanjappa Palekanda appointed VP-talent experience & operations, Netflix
Nanjappa Palekanda, has joined Netflix as vice president - talent experience and operations. He has moved from Uber, where he was serving as senior...
Google is redesigning its workplaces for hybrid working
Google employees may soon enter their offices to find ‘team pods’ instead of the usual desks and meeting rooms. Since the future of work...
Metros accounted for 86,000+ active job openings in April
Amidst the second wave of the pandemic that has taken the country by surprise, the top five metros —Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai—...
Express Stores looking to hire and expand
Express Stores, which recently raised seed funding of Rs 8 Crores, led by venture capital firm Venture Highway - founded by Neeraj Arora ex-Whatsapp,...
Alphabet staff seek 100% protection against harassment at work
An open letter from the disappointed employees of Alphabet, with over 1,300 signatures, has been sent to Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, seeking protection against...
Google partners with 130+ companies, begins certification programmes
Google has commenced its certification programme that will train candidates for entry-level jobs in data analytics, project management, user experience (UX) design and so...
Google to enhance Workspace for frontline and healthcare workers
Google will update its productivity software, Workspace, so that frontline employees —retail and healthcare — and remote workers can be served better, given that...
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
Apple updates employee-conduct policy, prohibits discrimination based on caste
Apple has come up with a first-of-its-kind employee-conduct policy that prohibits discrimination based on caste. While the policy was already in place about two...
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Lenovo joins mission to ensure inclusion in STEM
With an aim to close the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), Lenovo has joined others that share its vision to...
Farhan Hazarika to head talent management at Teachmint
Teachmint, the education infrastructure startup, has roped in Farhan Hazarika as the head of talent management with the responsibility of leading the talent strategy.
In...
Apple staff given deadline to return to office
Apple employees have been asked to work from office thrice a week starting 5 September, 2022 as it will follow a hybrid model from...
Acceleration Partners gets new CPO, global head – HR in Suparna Basu-Ravis
Global partnership marketing agency, Acceleration Partners (AP), has appointed Suparna Basu-Ravis as its chief people officer, global head of human resources.
Basu-Ravis, who is an...
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“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
“A CEO needs to acknowledge the silent majority who create the company’s fortunes” S...
Q. RPG is a diversified group with businesses spread across sectors and domains. however, its brands have a strong individual identity unlike other business...
