Tag: Microsoft

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.