Tag: inclusion
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...
Women form 36.1% of Wipro’s workforce, 22.2% of board of directors
That Wipro is serious about its mission to make the organisation diverse and inclusive in every sense of the word is clear from the...
Lenovo commits to inclusivity, signs Declaration of Amsterdam
Upholding its commitment towards creating a more inclusive workplace for its LGBTQ+ employees, Lenovo has signed the Declaration of Amsterdam on the occasion of...
DDB Mudra Group’s Vanaja Pillai promoted, will head diversity, inclusion &...
DDB Mudra Group has elevated Vanaja Pillai to the post of head – diversity, inclusion and impact. For over two years now, Pillai has...
Organisations worldwide are becoming more inclusive: Report
Figures for women in the corporate world are rather impressive, if the Gender Equality Index for 2022 is to be believed. About 7.5 per...
Randi Bryant is first chief diversity officer for Freshworks
In line with its goal to focus on diversity in the workspace, SaaS software company, Freshworks Inc. has appointed DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)...
Airbnb bats for D&I, will include more women, minorities in workforce
Airbnb has pledged to integrate more minorities from underrepresented communities in the US. It will also ensure that 50 per cent of its global...
India Workplace Equality Index launched
India now has its own workplace equality index with the launch of the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI). Keshav Suri, hotelier and LGBT+ activist,...
Financial inclusion for women through Project Kirana
Project Kirana launched by MasterCard, a global payments tech and USAID, a development agency, will enroll as many as 3000 women in Uttar Pradesh.
The...
More firms are promoting D&I heads across the globe
Maggie Farrell is appointed the D&I and human resources manager of construction service firm, SM Wilson & Co., while Candice Eaton Gaul moves up...
Exclusive job portal for women, LGBTQ, PwD and army veterans
Avtar, the Chennai-based diversity hiring company, has launched a job portal that will cater exclusively to women, members of the the LGBTQ community, persons...
ABB to have 25% women in managerial roles
As part of its Global Diversity & Inclusion Strategy 2030, ABB is working to double the percentage of women managers across its offices, globally,...
Google to set up DEI Advisory Council, will strengthen D&I agenda
Taking forward its commitment to making the workplace more friendly and to uphold its D&I agenda, Google will set up a Diversity, Equity and...
How work-from-home is fighting ableism
Teen Vogue, an American online publication, interviewed people on the concept of remote working. One employee diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis claimed that the WFH...
Amazon India launches 2nd all-women delivery station, promotes diversity
E-commerce company, Amazon, has established a delivery station in Kadi, in the Mehsana district of Gujarat, which is managed entirely by women. A total...
Why ‘belongingness’ is high on the HR agenda
Most organisations are actively pursuing diverse representation at the workplace, but this alone will not necessarily ensure that all employees feel included. Creating a...
Microaggression: Threat to inclusion at the workplace
An older colleague mentions to a younger co-worker that she is very hardworking for her age. A young person asks an older person if...
IKEA India celebrates Equality Day
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, IKEA India observed Equality Day on March 3, at its corporate office in Bangalore, to celebrate...
IPM India drives forward the D&I agenda
IPM India has seen change in the organisational culture as the leadership team has spearheaded a movement to make the workplace more diverse and...
How IPM is trying to achieve its diversity agenda
IPM India aims to reach 40 per cent women's representation at work by 2022. The Company started its D&I journey in 2016 to achieve...
Employee Clubs: Good for organisational culture
We all have been part of groups, clubs or societies in college and school. Generally, such groups come together because the members have common...
Women form 37% of leadership and 29.2% of workforce at Microsoft
According to Microsoft’s Diversity and Inclusion Report 2019, 29.2 per cent of its global workforce comprises women. The figure has increased by 1.2 percentage...
Capgemini reinforces its D&I agenda with LGBTQ hiring
It has been a year since section 377 was scrapped by the Supreme Court of India. But changes had already started at Capgemini a...
Citigroup and Star India do their bit for inclusion and diversity
Citigroup has upheld its inclusiveness mission by ensuring that its employee benefits and policies cover the domestic partners, including live-in partners of all its...
P&G’s inspirational short film showcases its LGBTQ inclusion journey
American multinational consumer goods firm, The Procter & Gamble Company, has launched a short film called Out of the Shadows. The 25-minute long film...
Johnson & Johnson exhibits commitment to LGBTQ+ professionals
Johnson & Johnson India (J&J) showed its undying support to the LGBTQ+ community on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB), which...
Viacom 18 offers daycare facility for children of staff
Viacom 18, the Indian entertainment network, is doing all it can to ensure gender inclusion. It had already introduced the 36-weeks maternity leave and...
How Indian companies fare against G2000 companies
India Inc. should focus on inclusion, diversity and strengthening of core talent-management practices.
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,”...
Meta to cut costs, freeze hiring, restructure groups
Is Meta experiencing a crisis? That is the question uppermost in the minds of most people as the parent company of Facebook has announced...
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DGCA to hire at least 400 people
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation, which serves as India’s aviation watchdog, is running short of hands. Not having hired for over eight years...
A peep into the leisure life of an HR leader
‘Life beyond Work’ in three words
- Helping others
- Being with family
- Spirituality
Passion beyond work
I belong to a family that was uprooted during the Kashmir...
Employment basis false info can be terminated: SC
Employees who produce false information regarding their suitability for a job or get appointed basis their suppression of their past records or history, such...
Puretech Digital launches People Vision, an aspirational chart for its employees
Puretech Digital, the Mumbai-based full-service digital agency has announced the launch of People Vision, an aspirational chart for its employees. Like a Company’s vision,...
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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...
