Tag: Microsoft

In response to the global economic crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft has announced a new global skills initiative, which aims to...

In a bid to attract foreign investment, Uttar Pradesh has managed to reach an agreement with Microsoft, wherein the multinational technology company will set...

Microsoft has entered into a partnership with the State Bank of India (SBI) Foundation to train more than 500 differently-abled people and help them...

Microsoft will soon be unveiling its third research and development (R&D) centre in India, at Noida. The Centre will create thousands of job opportunities...

A lawsuit filed in Washington, by International Rights Advocates, is demanding damages from some of the big names in the technology space, including Google,...

The holiday season is full of stress for young parents. Along with having to work, they have to think of buying gifts and also...

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...

CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has got a 66 per cent hike in total compensation, that is, a total salary of $42.9 million in...

Madhav Vamsi has joined agri tech firm, Aibono, as the head of people and community. The firm builds technologies that empower farmers by giving...

Microsoft has tied up with the Telangana government’s Women Entrepreneurs Hub (WE Hub) to help women of the region focus on the designing and...

Sit-outs and protests amongst the labour class in the manufacturing units are not new to businesses. Through these protests the workers either raise their...

Microsoft is all set to contribute in a big way in creating a future ready workforce in India. The Company will launch ten artificial...

A report by Microsoft reveals that in two years, India will witness a two times increase in employee productivity due to businesses adopting artificial...

An internal e-mail chain has been doing the rounds at Microsoft detailing incidents of sexual harassment within the organisation. The e-mail that is more...

Employees at Microsoft have demanded that the Company reject a $480 million contract with the US Army, which involves creating versions of its HoloLens...

In accordance with the climbing demand for the latest technologies in India, Microsoft India is all set to upskill approx. 10,000 of its developers....

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn — the web- and mobile-based business and employment-oriented service — has announced its acquisition of Glint, which is a California-based organisation that...

Rachna Mukherjee, CHRO, Schneider Electric, an engineer turned HR professional, has stayed relevant and crucial for the business, even without a formal degree in HR. There was a role in HR, in a newly-launched telecom company, that completely gelled with her profile. She took it up as a challenge, and has never ever regretted doing so. 

More than 100 employees sent a letter asking leadership to cancel the nearly Rs. 136 crore contract with the federal agency. 

Microsoft’s diversity initiative, Leap, is now being extended to women who want to return to work - women who had paused their careers to raise children or care for loved ones.

The sector-specific winners for the most attractive employers this year are Tata Consultancy Services for IT, Larsen & Toubro for infrastructure & construction, and Hindustan Unilever for FMCG.

Before joining Microsoft in September 2016, Vamsi had a two-year stint at Flipkart as the campus head.

Attorneys are attempting to turn this into a class action lawsuit, covering over 8,000 women. 

This shows the growing importance of diversity in businesses.

The tool will help create persuasive resumes by importing personalised insights from LinkedIn into MS Word.

The company has shifted focus from its core business of Windows operating system to cloud computing and other digital technologies.

It now offers employee caregivers four weeks of paid leave plus eight weeks of unpaid leave to care for a family member with a serious health condition.

The paternal leave benefits, increased with effect from April 21, includes paternity, adoption and surrogacy.

The learning platform blends together Microsoft’s cloud technologies and LinkedIn’s job-search capabilities.

The company is reportedly going to begin the trimming during its earnings call on 26 January.

Microsoft tied-up with Simplilearn, to build a talent pool of over one lakh next generation cloud professionals by 2020.

Vamsi has joined Microsoft as the head of India University Relations. He spent two years at Flipkart.

While Microsoft wishes to focus on the phone hardware business, Flipkart states the need to do away with underperformers.

Jeff Weiner has written to his staff that the two corporations are unique yet similar in terms of their mission and values, which was also one of the biggest drivers behind a unanimous agreement on this deal.

The move is aimed to boost a healthy and productive work environment as well as emotionally uplift the company’s workforce.

Global employers, such as Microsoft, Deloitte, Adobe, Medtronic and Gap have also transformed their performance-review processes.

 

The layoff is an outcome of its plan to restructure its phone hardware business to better focus and align resources.

The company plans to take the number of autistic individuals in its India office from ten to 20.