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OnePlus launches new India office, will focus on employee wellbeing initiatives
OnePlus India, the global technology brand, has opened a new office at UB City, Bengaluru, spread over 18,000 sq. ft.
With full focus on employee...
How happy is India’s workforce?
It’s a well-established fact that happy employees are more productive, and it’s not because they spend more time at work, but they achieve a...
“The Great Resignation will make way for the Great Engagement,” Udbhav...
A big change in 2022
Two of the major changes that 2022 will see are, adoption of the hybrid model of work, and a movement...
Conga to expand globally, recruit 300 across India
Conga, the scalable revenue lifecycle management solutions company is expanding globally and in India, thanks to the acceleration provided by the need for digital...
Airbus to expand team by 2,000, recruit engineering and IT talent...
Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, is set to announce employment opportunities for high-end engineering and IT talents from India at the Wings India airshow...
Have Monday morning blues lost their relevance in the hybrid model?
When Monday arrives, no one is really in a mood to work. It is natural to feel some lethargy along with the disappointment that...
NSDC and Hero Vired to collaborate, upskill youth of India
Hero Vired, the Indian edtech company, and the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) have come together to offer internship opportunities, industry projects and financial...
Amazon Web Services to teach cloud computing to youth for free
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a pan-India initiative called ‘AWS re/Start’ with an aim to impart cloud computing skills to Indian youth. The...
Byju’s looking to hire diverse talent in India, the US &...
The launch of Byju’s Lab, an innovation hub, has opened up opportunities for both freshers and experienced professionals from the artificial intelligence (AI) and...
National Apprenticeship Mela today, across 400 locations in India
A day long Apprenticeship Mela is being organized in over 400 locations today, that is, October 4, 2021 by Skill India with support from...
Ford to create 11,000 jobs in the US; ex-employees in India...
Ford Motors announced its intention to expand operations in the US by setting up three major electrical-vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant...
Nestle India bats for gender diversity, recruits 42% women in 2020
Proving its commitment to ensuring and improving gender diversity within the organisation, Nestle India is focussing on hiring more women. Right now, 23 per...
MediaTek to hire across India, scale up R&D
In a bid to strengthen its position as a leading global chipset provider, Media Tek, the global fabless semiconductor company is preparing to hire...
No dearth of strikes, disgruntled workers across India
While most of India is struggling to limp back to normalcy, there seems to be no dearth of strikes and protests, with many employees...
Amazon to hire for 8,000 roles across 35 cities
Amazon is gearing up to host a Career Day in India, for the first time, on September 16. It has 8,000 roles open currently,...
Does a ‘beauty premium’ exist in the Indian workplace?
A recent study by the University at Buffalo School of Management found that the more attractive people are, the greater their chance of getting...
Why the effect of mindfulness changes as we move from Asia...
Mindfulness is an old practice that originated in the Buddhist culture. From a culture point of view, the behaviours and characteristics of people in...
If business travel was a perk, are we ready to let...
An American journalist’s article published in the New York Post said that in the pre-COVID era, she used to crib about business travel, as...
Intuit to add 350 engineers to India team in a year
Intuit, the American financial software company, is gearing to expand its team in India, by hiring at least 350 engineers. The AI-powered platform that...
What makes Indian CXOs a great fit for global roles?
In India, people follow different religions, customs, belong to different sects, castes, and speak different languages. Every state is known for its own festivities,...
AB InBev to sponsor gender affirming surgeries of employees in India
In a bid to promote a more gender-neutral work environment, the multinational drink and brewing company, Anheuser Bush Inbev (AB InBev), has introduced a...
Geetika Mehta to join as MD, India, The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company, global producer of chocolates and snacks, has appointed Geetika Mehta as managing director, India, with effect from July 1, 2021. Mehta...
Pearson appoints Siddharth Banerjee as managing director for India & Asia
Learning company, Pearson, has roped in Siddharth Banerjee as managing director, India and Asia. Banerjee has moved in from Games 24x7 where he was...
Corporates waking up to importance of paid miscarriage leaves
Recently, the New Zealand parliament unanimously passed a bill that allows employees to take paid leave post a miscarriage. Fortunately, India is way ahead...
Tech Mahindra, Lokmat, CavinKare, MG Motor India offer helping hand
India Inc. is putting its best foot forward to help distressed employees amidst the raging pandemic. Tech Mahindra has launched a covid care centre...
Amazon to vaccinate its front-line workers in India
Amazon is organising on-site vaccination drives under the supervision of licensed healthcare providers in Delhi. With the aim of ensuring the health and safety...
Stressed out docs, medical workers across India seek better treatment, pay
Even amidst the second wave of the pandemic, frontline workers, especially those associated with the medical field and the medical fraternity seem to be...
56% of salaried women exited the workforce in India in a...
Whatever the employment arrangement may be, women have always been more disadvantaged than men in the Indian workforce. According to the State of Working...
Royal Caribbean Cruises stalls India hiring amidst surge in COVID cases
Citing the surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in India, Royal Caribbean Cruises has temporarily suspended its plans to hire from India. According...
“Diversity will get new dimensions in 2021,” SV Nathan
2020: What to learn – what to erase
The biggest boon right now is that travel has become highly selective. Previously, we used to feel...
FarEye to hire 100 techies this year
FarEye, the logistics platform, is looking at expanding its global tech team in the face of unexpected rise in demand from manufacturers, retailers, and...
[24]7.ai accelerating hiring in India
7.ai , the intent-driven customer engagement-solutions company has disclosed its plans to hire more people for its rapidly expanding workforce in India. The Company...
HGS to hire 3,200 by May 2021
Having bagged some great deals and with many more in the pipeline, Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS), which is a BPO under the Hinduja Group,...
Open leave policy — is India ready?
A great deal of thought goes into a leave requisition. After all, balance leaves have to be adjusted and one has to be prepared...
Reforms needed for India to create 90 million jobs by 2030
By the end of the next decade, an estimated 60 million workers will be looking for jobs in the non-farm sectors and an additional...
At JLL India, employees have the option to work from office
While work-from-home (WFH) was the sought after option by employees in the past, in the new normal, employees at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) India...
Reckitt Benckiser claims to eradicate gender pay gap
The Indian region of Reckitt Benckiser (RB) has outperformed other regions in terms of achieving gender pay gap.
RB India has achieved a mean gender...
TVS halts manufacturing, assures there will be no job or salary...
TVS Motor Company has announced that it will be halting all manufacturing operations at its India and Indonesia plants, to protect its staff from...
Nasscom expects India’s IT sector to grow by 7.7%
According to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), the information technology (IT) sector in India can expect to grow by 7.7...
STEM-related jobs on the rise in India
Jobs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics space have risen 44% in three years.
Science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM)-related job roles have witnessed...
Indian Gen Zs are keen on learning rather than stability at...
The employers of today are familiar with Gen Z— a generation born between 1996 and 2010. Though many of them are still aged around...
India and Germany formally collaborate for skill development and vocational education
India and Germany have entered into two formal agreements, to collaborate in the areas of skill development and vocational education. The formal agreements will...
Gautam Anand resigns as CPO, Airtel, India and South Asia
An Airtel spokesperson has confirmed the exit and said that Gautam is leaving due to personal reasons.
A little over a year after he was...
Why indian Gen X are not slackers
Being the youngest of three boys and 11 years younger to my eldest brother, clearly my parents planned to have a third child very...
AI will cause two-fold increase in employee productivity in India by...
A report by Microsoft reveals that in two years, India will witness a two times increase in employee productivity due to businesses adopting artificial...
Cognizant to lay off employees in India
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...
Uber India to expand its product and engineering teams
Uber is readying to expand its engineering and product teams across its technology centres in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Presently, Uber Engineering India has over...
Govt. working to ensure Indian workforce in UAE matches upto its...
The two nations plans to create a framework for skill development and formation of a Joint Working Group (JWG) for smoother operations between the countries.
India opens its top institutes to foreign students
Under the Study in India programme, 160 top institutes of the country will offer 15000 seats to foreign students.
8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Hyderabad to support women empowerment
The event, to be hosted by the governments of India and the US, will have women participants from over 10 countries.